Show 0 fl IMPROVING THE FARM FLOCK farmer should not be afraid to cull closely weeding out all weakly undersized fowl fowls improve the flock it always pays many of the farma farms have good block mock but the trouble la is they have too many kinds of it it Is a poor policy to buy up purebred stock and turn it loose among a halt hall dozen other kinds somo 90 crossed they will stand for nearly any kind of at treatment yet this is a rule on many farms it you give all extra care the purebred will respond to the good treatment and do good work as long as they live but the purebred seldom do good work under neg lect elect they are not used to it the good treatment the purebred get to AAL barred plymouth rock female bred brad at united state states government poul try farm bring them up to the right standard becomes a necessity and they suffer and loso lose out under rough conditions it if your stock Is run down improve it it get rid of all poor stuff don t be afraid to cull and cull closely say saye twentieth century farmer weed out weakly undersized hens say that you have a mixed flock with a fair sprinkling of barred hens or any color that la Is in close resemblance to some of the purebred and yet you know they are not purebred there Is nothing to hinder binder you from making those barred heas hens or the buff or white whatever you may havo have a majority of the basis for an improved flock that will cume up to the purebred in size and looks with possibly greater laying power and strength became because ot at the late crosses in their blood it la to true that if it you will improve you must breed from one color you must set aside ten or more of your best beat marked hens of the color decided on u which may be barred if you yon 1 have a cockerel or two as well as these bens hens and large as the barred breed requires keep these to mate with the selected bens hens if there are no cockerels of this variety to breed from it will be beat to put in a couple of the purebred barred rocks there mufit must be some arrangement made for keeping these male birds and the selected hens in a pen pe to themselves during the breeding sea eon son the expense of such a pen pon Is e very light you cannot expect to irn IM proe your flock without some abu expense ten or fifteen hens will give you all the egg eggs you need tor for breed ins stock tock next year even hoy close culling by another year you M auld be able to discard all you mixed stock and rely on the improved birds to form all 0 of the flock which will yet demand culling and good each year MANY MEDICINES FOR ROUP with strict quarantine tine and disinfect ant in drinking water simplest cures are best there are many medicines medicine for roup and with strict quarantine and disinfectant in the drinking water the simplest cures cure are often the best and surest but here Is one that is I 1 worth trying ahen you use this you omit tho the disinfectant from f roin the water al lowing all sick and well to drink it but never the sick w with ith the well remember give this water to them in their hospitals get got the druggist to mix it in this way two drams tincture of iron two drams tincture of aconite two drams tincture of belladonna add to this four ounces of water and after shaking to bac 0 full teaspoonful well put a water this Is to quart of drinking be relied on in severe colds and also in roup it you do not let it get the start of you in tun the flock get rid rl e of vermin the bodle bodies 0 of f the lice live upon poultry they deposit their eggs in generally genon lly near the vent went the plumage scurf curt dead skin cd c d the I 1 and live upon feathers eal hers to get rid of them remedies must V bo applied to the bird charcoal Is beneficial dont dent neglect to bave favo a supply of at all time times charcoal before the layers flock bealtho be althy it sit helps he alps to keep the |