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Show POULTRY NOTES. Pe sure there are no bad drafts In the henhouse. Leaky roofs should be repulred before be-fore fall work begins. Give the hen the proper material and she will lay all right. Borne form of dry animal food Is a satisfactory food for egg production. Though fowls are primarily grain eaters, they desire meat food In some form. Turkeys are Insect hunters, ducks are grazers, and chickens are grain eaters. Learn to handle from 60 to 100 chickens successfully before trying many more. Heef scrap Is probably the best and most convenient substitute for meat that can be used. It Is the little details that make the difference between success and failure In poultry raising. The presence of a cockerel with hens has little effect upon the number and quality of eggs. Oil meal Is high In protein content and Is most valuable In the fall when molting Is In process. If given whole grain, for which they murt scratch arr.ong the straw, hens get necessary exercise. It may be truthfully said that, under the same conditions, eggs will keep fresh no longer than milk will keep weet. Fowls will do something toward bal-aneing bal-aneing their own rations, and they will take more or less exercise If they have the chance. Thousands of farmers market then milk and cream dally; and an appeal la made to them to market the eggs produced dally also. The quality which Is most desirable In milk and cream for Immediate con sumption is sweetness. In eggs, the corresponding quality Is freshness. Kep fresh water, grit, oyster shell and charcoal before the chicks all thn time, cut grass If they are shut In a small run, dry wheat bran and finely ground beef scraps. |