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Show j The canonizing season is at an j tnd. , Start the trap nests if you are keep- j Ina a record of your winter layers. j The battle with vermin Is a never-1 ending o:ie, because the lice never l'iit The tarly pullets are beginning to lay, but as a general thing, rggs are very scarce. j Tho best remedy for sick fowls is the ax,' but with proper precaution j they won t get sick. . Two or three applications of kero-1 eene to scaly legs makes as sura a remedy re-medy as can be found. There are those who begin with wcnibs. Intending to keep purebredt later on. but they seldom do. It is possible for tha bens to lay when eh d ling their feathers, but not when growing the uew crop. Chaff about straw stacks makes good scratching litter and the sooner It la hauled up the better it will be. If the poultry house Is overcrow ded kill off some of the older birds. Keep stocked up with young thrifty layers. Tboaa old hens may bm valuable as "keep aakes" but tha young and vigorous vigor-ous ones will produce the most eggs. Do give the later summer hatched - chirks a chance to eat their meal without bing run over by older birds Kxilted men and women make ex Ited birds, and that has a bad effect 09 the egg producing mechanism of the birds. ! Bell aU the old bens that you do not intend to winter. At this season they command a reascnably good price in market Get ia your winter supplies and -utensil this includes tha incubators auad brooders, and what sew stock yon must purchase. JToa may think you know a good Seal about how to raisa poultry, but tba deeper you go Into U the boot mrprtsoa you will find. |