Show 4 SPROUT OATS FOR CHICKENS homemade arrangement will prove satisfactory feed in small square squares preferably at noon you can buy readymade oat sprout era from several makers but a home made affair will servo serve the same pur pose for a moderate sized flock have made a stand for three tras have tour four uprights corner corners of 12 inch stutt stuff 52 inches high hoard board up back bides aides and top lae 1 ae will fitting door for front on inside of corner posts nail 12 inch pieces from front to back for trays to rest on put lowest 22 to 24 inches from bottom the second ten inches above the third eight s above and allow six inches for top tray make blake tray trays of three fourths to one inch boards with sides three inches high or perforated galvanized iron for the bottoms use 0 a low broad bowled meal oil lamp on door floor to beat temperature should be 65 to SO 80 degrees fill trays with oats that have been well weli soaked in warm water 24 hours un to level of sides keep well moistened with warm arm va ter they should sprout in 24 hours by filling traya three day apart at first this will allow for transferring from top to bottom as sprouts grow the sprouts should be four to rix inches high to get best beat results cut out oats and sprouts in blocks of two to three inches square and feed preferably at the nc ric a 1 I feed ventilating THE HEN ROOST F fresh resh air may be supplied by using six inch board with strips on side placed inside take tak 0 a it six inch board nail a three inch strip on cither either fide side and box up oneena one end make blake a four inch hole in eld aid ing near the roof place boxed end ot 0 trough over hole on the inside of build ing with vent end down and fatten fasten by A y b details of ventilator toen allIng or with cleats this Is tor for la coming incoming fresh air take a piece ot of galvanized iron six inches in diameter and screw on the outside of ot henho henhouse uso over one edge of hole use the ven yen dilator regulator according to outside temper tare and direction of wind to provide for the release pt impure air nae the same device but reverse the rn ifa 1 4 w I 1 ventilator in place application making holes in bottom 0 of iding filding with boxed end 0 of trough down end and yen end up this will ventilate without draft VALUABLE POULTRY FEED some become fat on almost any and plind of food while other others will not fatten on corn corn ts to a va valuable liable poultry od and it la Is in its abuse and not its uee use that it 13 1 to be condemned some fowl fowls become arf pt on almost any avy kind of 0 food bile others will not fatten eien on corn corts there seems IQ to bo be a good bit of humanlike nature about the mutt nip of ol the ben lim if it bens hens are made to exercise for their grain and are in it a good lay ing condition there i 11 cot not much dan dall ger of their beca aing over tat in last it U 1 14 rather difficult matter matio r lo 10 laying g hene hens it 1 ij when they are slack stack in laying and become lazy that the fat at seems to start ko 10 crow grow when bens hens become too fat they should be placed in a separate yard where there Is no male hird as the attention of a male to an lien hen lj ij apt to hasten death if such lens hens are giren given only lan evening feed of wheat and nothing during the day food and water they will except ex capt green soon lose considerable of their sur ur plus fat Compo altion of poultry manure according cording Al to be central experiment gatlon tat lon ottawa canada tl 00 compo alfton uon of the average poultry manure la 13 as to follows water 6 66 per oer cent allro r two to eight per lent cent phosphoric add arid two to five per cent eight to nine per cent this ana lyel value talve ton too at 5 to would place the pr per |