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Show illliflSf Hens relish a feed of boiled potatoes pota-toes occasionally. There is no better place for the incubator in-cubator than a clean, dry cellar. It is an easy matter to chill a lot of profit out of a hen this time of year. Young hens should be depended upon for winter eggs. As a layer the overfat hen is about as useless as the hen that is thin from not getting enough to eat. Hens do their best laying before they are two years old. Hens more than two make the best sitters. For successful work It is necessary to have good Incubators, good eggs and good, common-sense management. A chicken will drink as much water, proportionally, as a cow, and it Is quite as Important that it should have it. Leg weakness Is the result of a lack of mineral elements in the feed. Green feed and lime in some form are needed. need-ed. Having dropping boards made of matched lumber will save time and temper when it comes to cleaning them. It costs more to keep a poor hen than it does to keep a good one. More worry, more vexation, more dissatisfaction. dissat-isfaction. Wherever cement floors are used short litter should cover them several inches deep. The bare floor is too damp and cold. Keep the temperature of the egg chamber as near 103 degrees as possible, pos-sible, and keep the Incubator away from the sunlight To encourage duck eggs, which are so greatly in demand during the winter months, the stock birds should be fed liberally. An occasional drink of water in which ten drops of carbolic acid per gallon have been mixed Is a recommended recom-mended preventive of disease. |