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Show PoultpyNote-s The wire neat has mud to commend com-mend It. A neglected hen 1ll lay In summer but never In winter. Hcrapa saved at butchering time make a fin egg stimulating feed In cold weather. A down eggs will buy almost a bushel of oats. And oats make a good winter feed for eggs. Hens that are let out Into the cold and snow are soon chilled out of the egg laying notion. For quick fattening, nothing beats a mash of corn menl and milk, fed warm about throe times a day. If the house la damp scatter some dry ashes and ulr slaked lime about They ar good absorbents. Kiinnlng an Incubator Is a Job fur a grown peraon. Hetter not let the children have anything to do with it. It Is a giMid plan to make the mat bottoms of poultry mire. That tnakee Hit m easy to clean and a poor harbor for tnli.H and II' e. Itiick. kept up in winter will be found to thrive U-tter If th lr torn Is noak.il in warm water Instead of feeding feed-ing It hHrd and dry. A light case of roup may often be ' cured by ducking the .Irk bird's head In a mixture of one ounce per-maiiKunate per-maiiKunate of ilan!i to threat pints of ' water. ' The weather I changeable these 1 dus and the incubator will bear do watching unless kept In a building I where the temperature I Tery unl- I form deyplte outside changes. Kvery farmer ke-pa chlckena and If , Ihey would give their poultry the am rare their other stock gets they might all have winter eggs. ' Pigeons take care of the fa-eding rt ' t'lusbs and thst savea a lot cf bother. 1 The mighty mite Is more quiet these cold winter days, but he Isot flead. (lais can be cored by fumigating the chicken with sulphur. The first thing aft-r """5g np an Incubator Is to select a pue for tt |