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Show IPOIJLWNOTEC A lock on the henhouse may save some of your best stock. Coops and brooders should be disinfected dis-infected often and thoroughly. There is no better thing to use about the roosting quarters than plenty of air slacked lime. An unfertile egg is worth just as much as any other but it must be found out before set upon. Rape will stand a good deal of freezing freez-ing and is often in good condition until un-til near the end of the year. If you have good stock you can always find a market for It, and If It Is not good it will pay you to make It so. Filthy houses, runs or yards invite in-vite disease, while cleanllnes is one of the roads to healthy fowls and success. A small quantity of wild onions was fed to some laying hens and In about two weeks an onion flafvor was noticed in the eggs. Hang cabbages In the pens for the hens to pick at, also raw livers. If they can reach these too easily shorten short-en the strings. There is no better pets for the boys and girls than well bred pigeons Fans, Pouters, Tumblers. Magpies Owls, Homers, etc. The last meal of the aay is the most Important now and It should be warm and substantial as It prepares the hen for the duties of the next day. There Is a profit in selling eggs on almost any market if the business la properly conducted; but there Is no big money without special markets. Underfeeding chickens Is as bad as overfeeding. Give them enough to live on comfortably whether we provide enough to lay eggs on or not. When you mark a crate of eggs "strictly fresh" mean what you say Stand back'of every egg you offer for sale. That Is what builds up reputation. |