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Show Poultry Notes $ Early chicks require good brooding accommodations. Hungry hens usually aren't profit-, able layers. They need a full feed of grain in the afternoon to last them through the long winter night. Chicks need exercise. Pieces of potato, po-tato, mangel, cabbage or meat tied to strings hanging within reach of the chicks will often keep them from picking pick-ing each other's toes. During the last thirty years the hen has risen from merely a side Issue to become a basic part of our agricultural agricul-tural wealth. Many men on the farm have taken over the farm poultry business after their wives have demonstrated that It is a paying proposition. Clean, healthy young stock Is the key to success in poultry management. manage-ment. Breeding, for instance, can be purchased, but sanitation must be lived, practiced, and continued. Cod liver oil Is usually fed to adult birds in the proportion of one quart to 100 pounds of mash and for chicks one pint to 100 pounds of mash. Clean chicks, clean soil, clean feed and clean management work wonders In raising thrifty young birds and Insuring In-suring their future as laying hens. ' When breeding stock or chicks are purchased, be sure that they have been produced by flocks which show outstanding out-standing vigor and give evidence of good health. |