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Show The caponizing season Is at an end. Start the trap nests if you are keeping keep-ing a record of your winter layers. The battle with vermin Is a never-ending never-ending one, because the lice never quit The early pullets are beginning to lay, but, as a general thing, eggs are very scarce. The best remedy for sick fowls la the ax, but with proper precaution they won't get sick. Two or three applications of kerosene kero-sene to scaly legs makes as sure a remedy re-medy as can be found. There are those who begin with scrubs, Intending to keep purebreds later on, but they seldom do. It is possible for the hens to lay when shedding their feathers, but not when growing the new crop. Chaff about straw stacks makes good scratching litter and the sooner it is hauled up the better it will be. If the poultry-house is overcrowded, kill off some of the older birds. Keep stocked up with young thrifty layers. Those old hens may be valuable as "keep sakes" but the young and vigorous vigor-ous ones will produce the most eggs,' Do give the later summer-hatched chicks a chance to eat their meals ivithout being run over by older birds |