Show poultry note grit ie as essential in abe fattening pen as for laying hens or growing fowls some fowls are hard to keep within others are easy it la 11 to remember this in making choice of a 1 breed the best way to supply ducks with arit is to put it in the drinking water they aiko to go n fashing for it grit ia quite as necessary for them aa for chickene ducks can atay in the water for houra or wado about in enow and einch without harm and yet if kept on wet floor at night will contract rheumatism or leg weakness keep tho floor of their house well littered with leaves chaff cut straw or short hay the poultry should not bo permitted to contract tho habit of holding meetings at the kitchen door or on the back porch never feed them there and do not throw out scraps pf any kind near the dwelling while the hens may not lay much for two or three months their owner should jeans for 1896 bajt should not ia the mornings and let bia poultry wait for their breakfast screw eyes hero and there in the walla of abe are convenient to tie bits of meat turnip or cabbage to this keeps tho food clean and furnishes exercise at the same time tho hon that lay eggs in winter does something else lay oa fat she must have egg making food this means meat milk clover bran vegetables along with corn automatic fountains having small drinking cups are best for long fowls at this season the ideal to fatten fowls is in a small dark compartment where they san do nothing but cat and keep quiet under such conditions they fatten quickly and that is conducive to abo best meat at the lowest cost if your henhouse is or can be made real tight an all day fumigation with burning sulphur may kill all the vermin in it oven to bedbugs it is said that nothing but lost souls can long survive the fumea of burning sulphur I 1 be not surprised some day to eggs taken to a huge hatchery and in due time the chickens taken away by the surrounding poultry raisers rai sere that was done in asia ago and may be done again in extreme northern minnesota is a henhouse in which water or eggs never freeze it is sided and battened on abe outside with good lumber and on the inside with matched staff with building paper on each side of studding making a dead air space winter eggs are abe in ir |