Show TO discourage THE SITTER one good way Is to confine fowl in par bare yard and feed tier her Ube rally of green stuff much alf we may like to see our hens start in to st sit t early in the spring there comes a time when their sitting becomes a nuisance it Is all right to keep heep a few hens hena sitting as late as august it if there to la a good local market for late broilers A few late scattered ScAtter edl broods are more trouble than they are worth except in those cases where you may like to have a few coming on right along for use on 0 i the homer table where they are raised with a view to marketing a them they should either be allowed a tree free range or a new plot of ground should be set apart for them ground that to Is free from the dirt and droppings of the earlier broods if the hens must be broken up and cured of the sitting habit it should done when the first indications are shown one of the best plans is to shut them up in a yard bare of boxes or other possible places where the hen may be able to indulge in her desire to squat if this yard Is sown in oats or is in grass it will be all ali the better let them live on gre green en food exclusively for a few days it will not injure thern them in the least and will cure them of the sitting desire as quickly as anything else the green food will be just the thing for them in hot weather in a few days most of 0 them will have forgotten all about their desire to raise a family and will be ready to go back to their duty of egg laying |