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Show Among the 1'oultry. Feed wheat to' tho poultry if confined. con-fined. Do not feed whole threshed oats exclusively. ex-clusively. If eggs nro kopt for hatching, thoy must bo turned regularly. Eggs lntondod for hatching should not bo allowed to got chilled. Mixing a pod of rod poppor In with tho food occasionally will bo found beneficial. " It takes tlmo for 'ho hens to got too 1 fat to lay, and roqulros tlmo to get thom in good condition ngaln. tea: Poultry running nt largo in an " orchard do a largo amount of good in destroying Insect pests and vormln. Sorghum socd makes ono of tho best feeds for growing fowls, especially whim thoy aro doslgned for oarly market. mar-ket. A cheap remedy for llco and foul air in tho poultry lio;iso is to mix a quart of coal tar to 10 gallons of water and sprinklo ovor ovorythlng. Clover is ono of tho very.-best foods for laying hens. Food olovor hay cut into small pieces nnd Bonkod during tho winter, nnd on groon clovor during tho summer with their grain. Millet scod is a good food for young poultry as soon as thoy bogin to loarn to pick up Ilttlo bits of something to cat, and ordinarily it is a cheap feed. Many good broedors bollovo thai roup can bo inhorltod; that n hon one afflicted with roup novor entirely recovers re-covers from tho dlseaso and will transmit trans-mit it to hor offspring. Faria Notes. Crudo curbollo ucid is hotter to uso as a wash In soapsuds for trees than anything olso. Korosono should not bo used on trees at all. Ureodors who exhibited nt tho horso ohow in Now York city all agroo that tho business of brooding and training fino horses grows hotter with each year. Ico cold water drank by animals la. raised to blood heat with grain and hay for fuel, just ns truly as If you burned that fuel under a kottlo containing tho water. As In tho matter of country butter, so hams, lard and other hog products must bo just as good as any other, if tho mnkors expect to find a ready market. The best colts cannot bo roared llko hot houso plants. Thoy must havo exorcise; ex-orcise; but to havo this they nood not got their shelter from tho looward sldo of n barb-wlro fenco. Tho standard tomporature for churning churn-ing in tho wintor is 65 dog., In the summer 50 dog. Croam always warms up few degrees in tho churning. Tho churning in wintor should bo dono in a warm room. Tho cost of foodlng cows in a Canu- dlan didry herd amounts to $18 Inthrco H months, from Jan. 1 to April 1, whllo l tho milk Is sold for $12, leaving $24 I protlt for tho throo months, equal to H $90 a cow In tho year. A nurseryman tolls In tho Rural Now jl YorVor thnt ho uses with great succesi H smo.ll bottles ns troo lnbols. Tho ro5- H ord is placed in tho bottlo, which it, H then closed with n stopper and covorod H down to tho nock with rubboroloth onj H wired on tho uauao oa any lnbol. H |