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Show If you want your poultry fed right, 3o It yourself. If a hen is very sick, it scarcely pays to doctor her. Take care to keep plenty of clean water before the chicks. With eggs so high the hen seems to teel that she needn't lay many. The country is full' of people who have not mads a success of poultry. Clean out nest boxes often at this time of the year and refill with clean straw. The best, feed is none too good for the little chicks. Spoiled food causes indigestion. An open scratching shed is within the possibilit ies of even the most modest mod-est poultryman. If you are setting hens do not neglect neg-lect to dust them thoroughly with a good insect powder. Poultry raising is an industry too often beset with trials which end in disappointment and failure. The failure of many poultry enterprises enter-prises can be traced to a loss of constitutional con-stitutional vigor in the stock. Get the chicks 'into good habits; start them off with a variety of food to accustom them to eat anything. A cheap rough house may serve as well as a costly one, provided the hygienic conditions are equally good. You can get green food for chickens without much trouble. Lettuce makes an excellent feed and grows rapidly. rap-idly. Ducks must have shade. If the duck run is bare, plant castor beans, sunflowers sun-flowers or hop vines to be trained over frames. One of the very essential things ln raising poultry is to keep the young birds, as well as the old stock, free from lice. Do not disturb eggs after the eigh teenth day, or open incubator wher the hatch is coming off, as it lets the moisture out |