Show On honm IiMillrj urero That there It I danger In feeding oat 10 the hen III tho morning when they arc hungry at the fowls will fill their crops full of the grain will then drink water an < 1ln a short time become crop raund 1 Aa noon at blue hcnx are found III this condition they ahould bo taken III hand and some of thus oats 11 worked > out of tho crops Tho lest limo to toed oats It I at night after the icnt have been picking all day They will not then be very hungry and will not rat enough to hurt them Oats aro a well balanced food for poultry and If It were not for this danger they could bo fed still more extensively I I Die oats may bo soaked before being Id but In this caw there It a danger that all will not bo eaten and n part become sour Tho fowls whoto crops become bound ore more frequently old fowls After ono dinlcultr of this kind another It I likely to occur That thin tlma It now at hand when wo will want eggs for netting nnd ao ahould mate tho pullet and cockerel A rooster may bo mated with only two or three hen but In ouch cata the mala ahould bo allowed with the female only an hour or two each day If he ha I to be left In there ahould bo at Icaat ten hens Thtt number la probably prob-ably beat but even fifteen or twenty w1 glvo fertile eggs with n vigorous male Homo hay aa many ut forty hem may bo mated with one rooster but his number U I too high to bo risked usually Aa to tlma of mating before the eggs aro wanted forgetting fifteen clays will bo tufllclent That li If the egg are anted the tint day of March put the rooster wllh tho hon not later than Tab 13 Then after tho breeding acaton tape tho rooster out nt ho only worries Ibo hell and It of no value In egg production produc-tion That ho kept only 1lymouth Hock for nnumbcr of yean and found them a very foo < breed of fowl Ono year ho kept account ol Ibo number of eggs laid nnd found that It numbered US eggs per hen perycnr Tula however WAIl not absolutely correct nt some ol tho young pullets had begun to lay before thin end of tho year and their eggs were counted with tho others The Plymouth stocks are In great dc nand among buyers aDd are always easily sold They have the right color at to tho akin right shape for economl cat tablo me and a good weight Time only posilblo objection to them It that they aro mean setters especially when you want to change them from one neat to another They resent any Interference In-terference and make a great futa about It 1 Thin contrail with tho Wyandotte Wy-andotte In this respect ho I great You can take tho little Wyandotte under your arm walk mitts her to anotho neat act her on new eggs and the Is I quiet and docile She goes to sitting contentedly on tho new nullII I McCruckon In Iurmcn Review |