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Show POULTRY NOTES. Warm wheat for breakfast makes the biddies shell out tbe ' FK. Don't be too sure your fowls have no lice; examine them closely. Don't permit a sick chicken to run with the hcultV ones a minute after ailment Is discovered. Clean out the tiefts. Hum the old nesting material and replace with clean. Kerosene the boxes. If you have beef scraps before the fowls In toppers you should not use meat or blood meal In the mash. The average age for pullets of the, medium sized breed to begin laying I between six and seven month. Infertile egg taken from the Incubator In-cubator need not be an entire Ions. They may be boiled and used at chick food. Plenty of bone all the time. If you haven't ft cutter use an old at or a ' hatchet, but break the bone In small pieces. During the winter montht, when 1 gre n food I acarre, turnips, twedes, mangels or potatoes form an excel ' lent substitute. Pigeon grass Is becoming widely dis trlbuted In the east. The seed hai much nutritive value and I One foi turkeys and chicken. Sell off all the scrub stock and keep , nothing but fowls of giswl quality This is the rule of every thoroughly I successful poultry farmer. The first gg laU by ft pullet Is the Mnallest and the size increases grad iially until about a dozen have been laid, when they lugin to decrease Chickens, bees and small fruit make nn excellent combination for profit on t lie farm. They Inteifere with each o'her to a very slight extent only. The first two weeks of ft ctliki :;fe are critical. They should ttart growing from the first cd kep It up . Hive them sweet, clean fotid, exer-I exer-I rise, pure air and warm quarters, and , tbey will thrive. Take more to fat ft hen now that ' It did two month ago, but don't win ter tbe hen that axe to old tbey may die before spring. Feed them -well, keep tbem warm and let them go thl Brat chance you have. Gretn fd must not be forgotten ' Home feed green rye when It can b ' bad. others give sprouted oats, otiten i ' bveU and tumlpa and cabbage, six: 1 other add cut clover bay to tbe math aul of the grtena mL;loned are got d |
