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Show THE POULTRY YARD. From December Farm Journal. Said old mother hen: "Summer Is when A hen can lay an egg each day; Rut then Is when She has a long day In which to lay. But In wintcr.oh, met the days, you sec, Are short as they can be. 'Tis then a hen can't beat An egg or two a week." Here's hoping 'that you may have a Merry Christmas. You never can breed a white-feather out of a black hen's wing. Hens do not belong to unions, but they go on a strike when the pay Is Insufficient. In-sufficient. At noon give some cut-up vegetables, and twice a week give some cut green bone. Hens can not speak, but they can understand. They know when they are getting good treatment. The hens that have to cat corn out of the snow, and drink ice water, are not likely to be In any humor for laying. The Jewish people In cities want goose meat, and the greasp, too. So the geese Intended for market must be fat. If jour flock Is run down in egg production, pro-duction, Just try whole wheat for one ration a day. Feed It In the morning, warming It nicely., Keep a supply of vaseline on hand during the winter. Applied to the frosted comb and wattles of a fowl it draws the frost out thoroughly. Keep the scratching sheds or the floors of the poultry houses well bedded, as the fowls need exercise to warm up their bod Irs these cold, frosty mornings. Give an extra allowance of grain at night, scattering It amongst the litter, so that the. fowls can be induced to exercise before they get their regular breakfast. It is a mistake to think that the more hens you crowd into a house the more money you will get. Overcrowding Overcrowd-ing will cost you more than any other one mistake. It you want your young pullets to mature quickly, feed wheat, aad give them all the milk they will drink. For laying hens milk takes the place of meat and insects. Pullets will develop better and more quickly If Kept unmated until spring. No pullet should be used for breeding purposes that are less than ten months of age. Close the poultry accounts at the end of this month, and make a memo-, randum of the stock on hand, buildings, utensils, etc. It will be Interesting to know just how you stand In the rr. attar. |