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Show The best producers are not always the best market fowls. Gentleness counts much with chickens, chick-ens, aa it does with other birds and animals. The necessity for fresh air has led to the great popularity of tbe open front houses. All brooders and brood coops should be thoroughly cleaned and put away for the winter. lint mantles on cold dsys are on the feeding program of many successful poultry raisers. Kggs and fowls used In the home should be credited at market prices. This Is only fair. When the white of an egg Is watery It shows that one la not feeding a good, well balanced ration. Chickens should have good food and plenty of It, as well aa clean, fresh water and clean coops. This Is a good time to figure up sc counts fr the year and see what the chicken business has done for us. Young geese are not to be picked the first year, unless you soil them dressed, a very difficult thing for tbe novice to do. The thintts which axe Important In the poultry business are the things which are deemed the least Important by the big raisers. To keep poultry from roosting over . feed msnsrs and other places that . ought to be kept clean, nafl a small I wire four Inches shore the board. , |