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Show POULTRY NOTES. Always keep your poultry house light and dry. Any person can keep poultry, but every one cannot get poultry to keep him. Kindness wins even with chickens. It Is said that hawks never attack ducklings. Poultry cannot be successfully raised without the application of brain and muscles. The country fairs are announced lie sure not to iuIhs them, especially the home one. You will secure much better stock for the poultry yard by purrhHirn cockerels early. Tbe man who uses system Is tba one who accomplishes tbe most work with tbe least effort. Tbe dust bath Is necessary to tb health and Is a great aid to keep th fowls free from lice. Ik not neglect the pullets, for the sooner they are matured the sooQei they will begin to lay. U'esk chicks from poor stock will never repay tbe owner lor the time b puts In caring lor tbem. Turkey raiders find It profitable t have guinea fowls with tbe tuikey flock. They act as police. Tbe first point to Investigate wbea buying cpgf or day-old chicks l tb vitality of the parent stock. Clean out the houses and coops, then spread the manure over the garden gar-den after digging or plowing. Feed plenty of meat In the fo.-m of taWe scraps, be-f scraps or cut fresb bone, and your pullets will lay earlier and better. Most poultry raisers overfeed, foe getting In their Interest In prr-apectlvs chicken dinners the fact that tat hens will not lay steadily. Give the late hatched chickens s chance by teedlng them separate from tbe older ones and giving theji a freh. clean range where other stock does not go. Tbe caponlzlng season la on sad txwltry raisers that have never tried thla method of producing fat. young, table birds can try their band at Uts business with profit |