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Show POULTRY NOTES. Winter hntched chickens are the ( best layers. , No expensive apparatus Is required to raise geese. ( Never breed from yearling turkeys; , select two year-olds. , Never breed from late hatched tin-keys. tin-keys. If It is possible to get better. Not only Is tl e demand for eggs Increasing, In-creasing, but also for chicken meat. Much of the mortality among little , chicks is due to their being fed too ' soon. Instead of being overdone, the poultry poul-try business is scarcely growing fast enough. ' Don't overfeed the first week of f it- ' tening. Kather feed lightly thiee ' times a day. 1 The food In the chick when hatched 1 will be fully assimilated and digested I In 4S hours. ' All things considered, there still re- I mains plenty of room for all In the poultry business. In making up a ration It Is Import- i ant that It contains food that in fowls will cat readily. Cornmenl, meat and potatoes are three of the most valuable Ingredient! In the fattening bill of fare. ( There are three things necesary to successful turkey raising, good stock., proper feeding and good care. , Free range chickens are never so ( tender for roastlm? as those with limited lim-ited range and fed on pure feed. When a flock does not produee as fertile eggs as It should, the bet rem- edy is to Introduce new blood by buying buy-ing males from a farm range flock Some folks are forever plannj lg , ahead and figuring how to make t-hlckens ray, and while they are puttering put-tering along with their plana and figures fig-ures the hens and their broods are neglected. Gluten meal Is one of the bv prcd-ttrts prcd-ttrts made from com In the mantif-v-. ture of starch er glucose. It come from the flinty jart of the kernel n1 ' Is very rii h la protein. It Is valuable ' for poultry. Prof. John Fiolils says It Is probable that o beans would be better for growing poultry tran cow ieas. Tby ' rive a greater yield of grain, and are ' el very similar composition aad feeding feed-ing value. 1 1 |