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Show The merits of the scratching shed are shown during bad weather. Poultry and eggs bring good prices now-a-days. Some of the causes of roup are sudden sud-den and extreme changes in temperature, tempera-ture, damp bouses and draughts. A good poultryman is industrious, not easily discouraged, filled with pluck and grit and full of ambition. Have your fowls so tame that you can go among them without causing fright. You will get better egg production. pro-duction. Excited men and women make excited ex-cited birds, and that has a bad effect on the egg-producing mechanism of the birds. Do not put males in adjoining pens with only netting between them. Have a twelve-Inch board at the bottom of each partition. Hens will eat a great quantity of coal cinders and they are very good for them. Try putting a load in the chicken yard and watch the result. |