Show GOOD OF SETTING HEN one of best feeds lo Is corn together with green food grit plenty of water and dust bath the setting hen must have her dally daily care and attention just like the incubator one of the best foods for setting hens is whole corn or corn chop together with green food grit and fresh water place tho the corn and water in front of the nest so that during the first day or two the hen will not have to leave her eat and drink on the third day release her and acarter grain on the ground try to have it so BO arranged that she can get a dust bath A formula for a good dust bath is equal parts of coal ashes and land plaster or fine sand and some lice powder let the hen remain off the nest for about five ave minutes tho the next day take her off at the samo same hour if possible and from then on she may stay off the nest until the eggs are cooled to blood heat the hen should be dusted with lice powder pov der and the second time on the eleventh or twelfth day and again three days before hatching one may omit the second dusting but not the third on the eighteenth day as the hen should be free from lice before the chicks hatch |