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Show POULTRY NOTES. Nests should be kept comparative ly dark and as clean as possible. Turkeys should not be allowed ta roost in the poultry house with chickens. chick-ens. Bright red combs and wattles usually usu-ally indicate a thrifty and healthj flock. Make the laying hens feel comfortable comfort-able and contented, and they will do better. Plenty of sunlight is essential In poultry quarters. Darkness is conducive con-ducive to disease, dollars and cents. Do you keep an egg record? ilegtrj now if you have never done it before Set down the number you get everj day. All chickens that contract stubborn or contagious disease should be killec If they do not yield to treatment with reasonable ease. Sloppy mashes are not good for feeding chickens continually, and If used excessively will lead to weakened weak-ened constitutions and disease among the flock. Train your fowls to run towards you Instead of running from you with fright every time you come around. It Is more pleasurable, and also pays In Beginners Bhould not start by trying try-ing to raise several different kinds of poultry. Better confine the efforts to one variety, and then have those strictly first-class. Nearly all the successful poultry raisers make a specialty of only one or two varieties. They find that course is more profitable than to experiment ex-periment with a half dozen or mora breeds. Many who embark In poultry raising rais-ing think it is only a pleasant pastime. pas-time. Those who are experienced, however, know that, like any other profitable Industry, it requires skill and experience. With these qualifications qualifica-tions there is money la It most sure-IT |