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Show Amoug the Poultry, Feed wheat to tho poultry if confined. con-fined. Do not feed whole threshed oats exclusively. ex-clusively. If eggs are kept for hatching, they must bo turned regularly. Eggs intended for hatching should not be allowed to get chilled. Mixing a pod of red pepper in with tho food occasionally will bo found beneficial. . It takes time for the hens to get too fat to lay, and requires timo to get them in good condition again. Fifty-two eggs in a year ought to pay for the keep of a hen, and all that she lay .over thiu should be profit. Poultry running at large in aa orchard do a largo amount of good in destroying insect pests and vermin. Sorghum seed makes ono of tho best feeds for growing fowls, especially when they aro designed for early market mar-ket A cheap remedy for lice and foul air in tho poultry houso is to mix a quart of coal tar to 10 gallons of water and sprinkle over everything. Clover is ono of tho very best foods for laying hens. Food clover hay cut into small pieces and soaked during the winter, and on green clover during the Bummer with their grain. Millet seed is a good feed for young poultry as soon as they begin to learn to pick up little bits of something to eat, and ordinarily it is a cheap feud. Many good breeders believe that roup can be inherited; that a hen once afflicted with roup never entirely recovers re-covers from the disease and will transmit trans-mit it to her offspring. |