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Show I POULTRY I Exhibition Ducks, l'rom Kaiin.is lt.-v : I eihlhlt ach year nt our annual local show, tut 1 make no more effort to prepare the hlrds for exhibition than that mart" to have ood breeding btnla. If t Vnow nf anyone Knowing better I birds than I have I patronlre him I for ejias to the client of mjr r means. In that war 1 have great Ir Improrcd my stock. I always take first premium at our local ahowa, but I must say there Is slender com petition. However, my atork aenres well. I have free muse for my duck-llnrs duck-llnrs ami generally manaae to feed them once a day after they are feathered. feath-ered. 1'rcvlotia to that I keep them k rloser and feed liberally. I do not '1 think dinks receive half the alien- J lion they nivrlt. and some of these f daya when I have time. I mean to start boom, with the aid nf ohllKlna editors. edi-tors. In the I'eklD durk Industry. I would like to hear mora quarks from the durk row In the abow room. Aa a matter of fart wa ran aell all the good breeding durka we raise, and ewes are much In demand, but no on aenms partlrularly Interested In our abow record. The else of the durka la well looked after by buyers, and there are so many questions almiit broilers. We do not know a thins; about broilers, as all our business has been to raise and aell the nicest breeding stock we knew how to ralio. Onro a year wo picked nut aume large well sh.tH'd ducks and took them to our exhibition and won blue ribbon, wlillo most of our coin pernors had their birds disqualified for black aimta on beaks. It la not that we are auch iKtinrainuses about everything that anyone, showing should not enow that blur spots In the beak of a I'ekln duck disqualifies, bur Just gross carelessness. Kven the Judges say ducks are Just a innrket bird, as much aa to say, not worthy of ihlbltlng. Now I am very proud of my big Heklua ami some of these daya when the children ore grown up I'll b, able to tell you all about eihlhltlug I them. In the meantime. I'll have to bo ectlsfled to show them at our local snow only, and devote all my spare time to raising and Improving them, pending that time whon I run leave to go to all the big abowa. Ilaltlo Ily-Held, Ily-Held, Itiid Willow County. Nibranka. Probably Indlgeatlon, From Farmers' llevlcw : There Is - a disease prevalent among poultry, of which the symptoms are, vis.: A yery heavy breathing, Ibey shiver as with the aguo, refuse to rat, stop lay-y lay-y Ing a couple of days and die. bowels quite loose. The poultry were fed nn whole corn, winked breed aJ eeoked potatoes, and seemed lu good condition condi-tion all winter. Will you pleaao tell me, through the columns of your paper, pa-per, what alia them. Many of the farmers In this vicinity have lost ! bena In the aame way. Mrs. l.eo U. Miller. e e s The symptoms, aa given above, are very meager as ceasing to produce egKS and dying ran hardly be railed symptoms. The heavy hrialblng and looseness of the bowels would hull rate roup. If this la present the moutha of the hints should contain an abundance of colorless, stringy mucus, even If It does not show Itself Id the eyes. Cholera la posslblo, but not probable. Krom the data given we should Infer that the trouble la Indigestion, In-digestion, due to a too heavy grain ration throughout the winter. J'ota-looa J'ota-looa rould hardly balance the ration, as they are theniselvea overbalanced la the direction of the carbohydrates, a la corn. It la not probable that the fowla reeelvod a very large quantity of soaked bread. Kvery spring I mil-gestlon mil-gestlon carries off multitudes of fowls that have been heavily grain fed through the winter. Why the trouble doea not appear esrller we cannot Bay. 1'erliana the digestive; apparatus of the fowls are able to stand certain cer-tain amount nf abuse, and the limit of their endurance la not reached till spring. If these fowls had been fed a warm mash of bran and ehorta every morning during the winter, or bad r . celvud dully green stuff lu some lorm. there would jir.ihuhly be no trouble among them now. |