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Show A variety In feedlog Is one way of keeping tbe flock in Rood condition. Keep the brooder houses In 1. clean sanitary conditlou. and never over crowd. Iack of moisture In the Ineubatoi Is one of tbe common causes of chicks falling to break out of the sheil. ' A good spray to disinfect coops and brooders Is a mixture of onehalf pint carbolic acid In to gallons of wster Give tbe chicks as much range as possible, even If you have to limit that o. tbe oid fowls. Kierclse Is a means of development Tbe smaller tbe quarters the greater great-er the care. Crowded fowls are muc b more liable to become affected with vermin and disease. The correct mating is eight to fifteen fif-teen bens ror each cockerel. Tbe umaller the breed the more hens may be allowed to each rooster. Overcrowding, and especially at n gbt, a portion of the brood is sure to be injured wfclch may cot be apparent, ap-parent, but from which the cblck ne-e ne-e recovers. J When the ducklings are about etRht ve k old tbe set Is easily distinguished distinguish-ed by the voice, at this age the ducks rate a decided quark. hlle tbe drake's voice la thin and very low. Never allow c'licks cf all ages to run together. T!.e stronger aed larger larg-er ones will get roost of the food, and ill r.gbt aed crewd the weaker toe till, if they do Una, U tsier amuuA' Ui acyiblti- J 1 |