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Show (POEWNOIEC Fed before you water. Good food Is economy. Oyster shells are not good grit. Too much soft food ia not good foi the chickens. Ventilation Is more important thar wheat in the poultry-house. Watch out for lice, and grease wltt lird under the wing and top of head Throw your ashes Into the poult rj house and watch them enjoy them ae Ives. Fine gravel Is not the proper grli for poultry. They want a sharp ma terlal with which to grind their food The Incubator should b located In a room where the temperature doei not vary much during the day oi night Eggs will become fertile In frorr four to alx days after mating. Tin effect of mating will continue severa! months. It la necessary to feed the breed leg ducks liberally, yet at the sam time feed bo as to keep them actlrt and healthy. Tr fowls need clean, dry, eomfor tabl quarters during wet or coU weather. They will pay for that kind but no otbera. The eggs from matured hens wll riawh better and produce strongei chicks than the eggs of pullets. The are usually larger, too. The best roosting place for youni turkeys Is on branrbes of trees. Thej will not Buffer from exposure, ani the open life will make them strom ind healthy. If one begins with the chicks, doei things with deliberation, never makei a sudden and unexpected movement even the most timid breeds will be become tame. The white feathered broilers al ways have the more attractive ap pearance In market, as the pin featb era do not show as they do in dark plumaged birds. Soak Btale bread In sweet skim milk, press out the milk as complete ly as possible, and fed the chicks Also keep coarse aand before them; without It the chicks cannot (rial their food. |
