Show WJ profitable AS EGG LAYER drown brown unborn hen six year years old stop laying juit just long enough to hatch out brood broad As an to the age limit of profitable egg production there ore am many exception exceptions to this rule somo some heno hens are never profitable ege egg producers re while othere others may bo he profitable for years I 1 have a tareo fourths grade drown brown leghorn that la Is nearly six years old and ahe she has not stopped laying since early last spring long enough to batch a brood of chickens says a writer in an ex change she got broody lasi last april and was given eggs 9 but ahe she eat mat but a few days until she he quit her neat nest and WM was laying again in a short time timm sho she has bee beet I 1 almost a CO continual layor layer up to thia this data date and la to still laying much f the time cho rho laid an egg every lay tho the regular profit of 1 I 1 per owl seems to satisfy tho the average poultry man this la Is wrong for no one should bo be satisfied in any lino of work rosa comb brown leghorn but constantly striving atri Ting better bettor re ra suite and larger profits two and three dollars per par fowl li to a possible profit and la Is being attained by some men in the poultry business today the does not llo in the or the variety Tar lety but in the human brain let us all study more care fully ala rulea rules and principles that govern poultry culture let ua us strive to increase the profit in our flocks ind nd this thin thi s each year set met up a new standard for the year dy by thought perseverance and persistence tence 1 great things can bo be accomplished accomplish A with poultry INJURIOUS HABITS OF HENS fulling pulling and batin eating of each cach other feather feathers may be D cured by allowing them free rang range sometimes a cock flock of hens acquire the habit of pulling and eating each others other a feathers in some cases they are arte ao so bad that the flesh ot of the fowls become torn and sore more and tho th whole flock Is la nearly naked when they first show the signs of this vico vice measures mea eures should promptly be taken to care them the trouble la in caused by too closely confining the fowls and allowing them to bo be idle where possible they hould should be turned on the range where tho the of chasing bugs and eating the green stuff will make them thew forget the bad habit when they cannot be tamed turned out 1 they should be made to scratch for their grain in deep utter litter bundles of wheat or oats or sunflower heads may be hung up just high enough that they will have to work to get the seeds give 31 them some turnips or of mangle mingle beets or cabbage heads to work at st anything to keep them in exercise and busy feed flood them plenty of green food meat meal beb scrap scraps aad green cut bone rub carbolated vasel vaseline lne nn na the plucked fowls where tho feathers have been pulled out tiff cleanliness Is in more important tuia medicine tor for poultry plenty of buttermilk and clabber saven buying meat scraps sanitation Sanit atlon Is the great click i re ton ady in other words lon patient attention to the little thing things la is what makes success with poultry call cull all your young chickens keeping thoe those nearest to tho standard of perfection late hatched chickens sed 4 aa ciu clash h care as early once ones doat dont think they can mafia MUG a living the goose Is a bird while the duck thrives with a limited jact of green food tood for table it pays to hatch batch chicks chick from february to november No but th the number should be ba limited 11 duck eggs are set under the hens from this time on it will bo be best beat to avo the nest on the girourd remember th fowls that look aliko alike will attract hatter better attention and sen better than the bit hit and miss kind about the best remedy for scaly len lags which ie Is the work of pa parasites mattes Is an application of melted lard and s sulphur ul ebur 0 anc n ce a week wook drinking troughs nol need frequent looking after la in summer nothing like a filthy water or feed to breed disease la in hot weather reed rood less corn lad other vista thin than yoa ud did during the th the birds fea largely on an worms and ini hll they thol an are munia running oa an muse |