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Show Poultry Helps The lazy poultryman Is a bad egg. Avoid feeding chick feed that has been in stock so long that it is moldy. It is bound to cause much trouble. The house used for roosting quarters quar-ters should be large, roomy, light, clean and especially well ventilated. July, August and September are the months when tapeworms get in their worse damage, though it won't show up until fall. Lice will not "only keep the birds from doing their best at egg production, produc-tion, but they will also lower the vitality vi-tality of the bird, thereby giving various vari-ous diseases a chance to develop. One gander to two or even three geese Is the best ratio. They need a small house in which they will make their nests In the spring. I ... I Poultry men with cows can often gather up enough alfalfa leaves from around the mangers to keep the poultry poul-try in high-class green feed. Watch the body weight of pullets, Penn State poultry specialises urge. If they are losing flesh. Increase the amount of scratch grain, or feed a fleshing mash at noon. Use of shavings in the nests helps to keep eggs clean. In a comparison of shavings and straw as nest material, mate-rial, one-fourth of the eggs laid In straw were flirty, while 00 per cent of the eg'S laid in shavings were clean. ... Dust wallows are n source of much pleasure to the hens during the summer sum-mer months. Spade the fresh moist earth In the shade and the hens will do the rest. Dust baths are Instrumental Instru-mental in keeping lice under control. They should always he used outdoors Instead of inside the laying house. |