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Show Hens are high jumpers when they can get a dainty by it. Correct feeding and successful keeping keep-ing go together in fowldom. Be on your guard against drafts. They are disastrous this time of the year. The busy fowl is never sick. A breeding stock must be s strictly hardy. Lading hens will eat and digest 25 per cent, more feed than hens that are not laying. Feed wheat dry and warm for breakfast. break-fast. There Is nothing better for cold weather egg making. Perfect health and warm, not too warm, but comfortable quarters are necessary to insure eggs. Don't lose sight of the fact that it Is the early hatched pullets that make the best winter layers. Carry 6ut the droppings at least once a week. Too much work? Not half as much as to fight 10,000,000 lice. There should be separate quarters for pullets if they are expected to do much of the laying during winter. win-ter. Every fowl should bo perfectly tame, and the taming process should be commenced as soon as feeding begins. be-gins. Hens Infested with vermin are not In a condition to be profitable to their owner; you can avoid that condition by proper care. One important Eecret of winter laying lay-ing is to Eive thp looks a" the work posfible. And this is but one of the many ways of doing this. Never sell either eggs or birds .hat you have not considered good rouf--li for your own use; It's a bad policy for anyone. |