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Show FACTS ABOUT HENS AND EGGS How to Multo Moat Money from Poultry. When cholera appears in tho flock glvo no water except that in which pokorroot has been boiled. This Is both a preventative and a cure. An Illinois Illi-nois man says ono of his hens laid an egg two and sovon-olghths lnchos long and ono nnd flfteon-slxtoenths lnchos wldo, tho measurement being taken with callpors. Ono man will win with ono kind ot hen and another man with somo other breed. It is with hens as It Is with cows. Wo should cliooso tho breed we llko tho best and then stay with It. Fowls aro naturally hardy, and contagion con-tagion in a flock is duo to careless-nesB careless-nesB on tho part of tho poultry keepor. This Is proved by tho fact that ox-pert ox-pert poultry raisers havo very fow Blck chlckons. Hens need a bettor place In which to roost than tho trocs around tho houso. Ot courso, thoy may survive thero; but morely living and returning a profit are two different things. Don't stop fcodlng tho lions shells Just becauso thoy aro out ot doors and can shift for thomselvos. Thero Is no lino, not oven an Imaginary ono, between tho days when tho hen likes shells and when she does not. All days are alike In that respect. A woman In Vermont writes that from CO pullets and 12 yearling Rhode Island hens sho sold last year oggs to tho amount ot $202.02, not counting tho oggs used In a family of four. Food, advertising, etc., cost $94.71 'H .making a gain of $107.85, Theso henB laid 8,745 eggs. 'M To havo tho chickens mature rapid-Iy rapid-Iy a proper typo ot breeding fowl -should bo obtalnod. This typo conslstt 'H of fowls ot medium size and broad and blocky in shapo, llko tho Plymouth nock and Wyandottcs. Tho chickens should bo frequently fed, and a sum-dent sum-dent quantiy of food givon each time to satlufy them. |