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Show IPOULWNOTECI Renew the nests often with clean material. Field peas make most excellent feed for laying hens. Fw-dlng clover la a preventive ol soft shelled eggs. It takes knowledge, experience and skill to produce a good egg. The more comfortable and happy the hen, the more eggs she will lay. A hen should have all the green feed she will eat every day of ber life. A turkey will consume more grit than any of the poultry kept on the farm. New blood Is a necessity, If one Intends In-tends to build up the egg laying and ' market qualities of his flock. After mated, give your birds tlx best sanitary conditions possible and keep the bouses free from lice and uiltca. Great care should be exerclxed that breetilng stock, young chirks, or eggs for hatching, be secured from flocks which are free from white diarrhea Infection. Alrslaked lime sifted or scattered over the dropping boards will asntsi the ckaning process materially, and also take up much of the dampness from the droppings. Pave the small potatoes and other vegetables that would otherwise to waMe and feed them to the fowls. They w ill help In keeping up the egg yield In cold weather. A scratching hen and opportunity to get out in the sun in moderate weather weath-er are important to the health and thrift of bens In winter, and consequently conse-quently to winter egg production. Itoom. exercise, food, warmth, kindness, kind-ness, pure water and a management ihst w ill conduce to the comfort of the Bens generally, will keep the egg basset bas-set full In winter and mako winter roul'ry growing profitable. |