Show POULTRY MUCH NEGLECTED IN SUM SUMMER MER j Z 1 f hi v i t z I 1 ve good type of poultry house showing proper amount of glass glaas and muslin covered windows A partition divides it into two compartments Compart menta by MILLER PURVIS PUn VIS farm poultry is usually very much neglected because most people think fowls can find most of their feed during the warm weather and farm work presses prest ses and time Is precious pre elcus when anything that does not plainly show the necessity tor for attention Is likely to be left undone As a matter of fact poultry requires attention every day in the year and there are many duties about the poultry yard that call tor for performance especially during the summer cummer months I 1 think the most important thing that calls for attention during the summer months Is the destruction of insect pests or measures to prevent them from appearing at all it Is entirely unnecessary to have insects about a poultry house and I 1 look upon their presence as proof positive of carelessness the very best way to combat to la to begin before they appear and prevent them from appearing at all this Is about the easiest task that can be pet for a I 1 have for mapy many years kept my poll poil Y home bouse free from fraro all rinds ya of A pests pesta iby by using common coal oil once onca a week I 1 simply swab tho the perches top bottom and sides bides every square inch of the surface every week with coal oil I 1 use a common paint brush and apply the oil liberally occasionally I 1 go over the walls walla with the oil this ana two liberal coats of whitewash on the inside of the house will keep insects from getting a lodgment or an opportunity to increase tho the whitewash helps to keep tho the poultry house in a sanitary condition but attention to cleanliness and plenty of 0 sunshine la Is better clean the house afien often and have big windows facing south which are kept open so the sun can shine into the house and microbes mic robes will not flourish the poultry house in n which foul odors abide Is rot not fit tor for owls fowls IQ to sleep in fowls should be fed as regularly in the summer as at any other vine time but the quantity of feed way may be coo con alterably alder sider ably reduced if the ards have the freedom of the farm feed corn and wheat and have a box t 0 I 1 set scrap scram in a n dry place where the he hens can an get Q q at apy p time |