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Show Pullets Should Now Be in Houses for Winter Pullets should be placed In the permanent per-manent winter quarters before they commence laying. There should be plenty of ventilation In their building, but no direct drafts, and by no means should they be crowded. A crowded house will cause endless trouble. A building 16 by 20 will house from ninety to one hundred pullets comfortably, com-fortably, allowing three to three and one-half square feet of floor space for each. Cull out all weak, runty, slow maturing ma-turing pullets. They will not pay for their feed. Their eggs will be few and far betwe?n and they will be the early niolters next summer. Utilize the space and feed that they would need for profitable pullets. Whether pullets appear to be lousy or not, they should be treated with sodium fluoride, powdered but not dipped. Simply put about six to ten Inches of the powder in the feathers next to the skin, being careful to watch the tail feathers and fluff and each wing. Supply plenty of mash In hoppers and give liberal feeds of scratch grain in the evening. Variety is important. im-portant. Green feed should be supplied in abundance. Oyster shell and charcoal char-coal are necessary. An 'occasional moist mash is a factor In good management. |