Show HEALTHY HEN IS EGG ESSENTIAL feed must furnish sh fuel to keep fowls warm oens have more mora work to do in oro or berto der ato lay eggs in winter than any other atme atme of year for one thing fale fed d tn musi furnish fuel for keeping than v arm to manufacture whites of of eggs egg 3 requires a 8 healthy body supplied with certain food elements elp ments which liens hens naturally pick up I 1 in n the spring 9 and summer summer A number umee of important food elo td lia hav ve been found to be con contained ta ined fien pi n lactic ellk proteins vitamins and similar foo food d elee clee elements clements ments are easy to supply in the lay trig mash by the addition of 10 per cent or morel more of dried buttermilk A ration consisting of 25 pounds of wheat bran 25 pound po un bof standard dad 80 pounds of cornmeal 5 pounds bone meal and 15 pounds of bf dried bu buttermilk tier has alv given ein fine results 4 in feeding feeAl ng the gayln g mash should be kept before the flock ack al all the t time me and should be supplemented fi by feeding scratch grain twice a day by in dudang the dried buttermilk with th the e dry ari maso mash poultry raisers over overcome iome the bother of freezing a as 9 well as ag the of apt Is etsen buttermilk hafed feh bu t ts eassi to keep a and ideas easy i to feed yet it virrl 1 ele for hedw toniy in old w r 1 many poultry raisers chaye pro aided vided warm houses housos and kibec hai ebee n disappointed by no egg pro d ion be surprised ky by the results gl glyen yen from feeding asgood good egg laying mash i straw loft gives good ventilation in houses A chea very cold yven leather ther ventilation atio p tor for poultry house seems to be the straw aloft loft A loft 1 covered with woven bep w alre I re fencing or eief v elih t p potes p aes ant across about six an and d one ne haaf halloc feet above the floor and Is c casi cg si ifal teelie to inches anch es of joo araw tri ithe the goolst air works up kli the ole straw and out throb through gb or baffles in the ends bends just below taci k he roof vresh air Is ls admitted by oleal ofie iring iii the couth windows a little ht r top this method has gi given ven results in experimental several agricultural colleges and Js JW need quite ault extensively ten by many poultry man roen the point in favor faaoi of the straw itral loft deems seems to be that it lets out oui the lature fast enough to keep the houas bouge seasonably dry it and n d at the same time tim e retains much of the animal heat when to Market Fowls from tur turkey ey flock ninety five per cent of the turkeys ore are killed dressed and m marketed during november and dee december em ber about 75 per cent of all the turkeys consumed are sold solda for thi the thanks giving an and christmas trade A am cm ively small oina 11 quantity marketed nt christmas time Is stored y the tha thanksgiving turkeys are alli ally nat fuu ful grown or fat the extra months feed kives gives them a much better finish i they can then be frozen and thaw out bright and cle clear ar this freezer stock Is used almost most exclusively hy by the hotel trade some of the larger hotels having turkey on their mau menu the iho year around breeding fowls need plenty of exercise Bree breeding dInk stock stoc k es especially in the interior need plenty of ex exercise during the winter where snow and ast frost abound the birds on suitable days should be allowed out for a few minutes after shoveling a small piece of yard clear of snow EDOW a small quantity pf af litter should be spread for the fowls to scratch in int r tills this exware out of doors Is of untold a advantage to td shut in tn breeding stock worms take profits icle it la d that two thirds of the poultry jaent to tile illinois expert menta for diagnosis Is 19 infected with worms ess about tile the same cotiA coh dUfon Upil la is juite true in iii bidet oer states this Is bause biuse av by overstocking over stocking the p poultry 0 aultry lo 10 tots ts tind and auses louseg rou seg and nn d ly by the poul tryl 0 y tile lie i same ground year after efte r year arm medicines are not abo lf e alne bacans they do riot not de est eggs of df INA fie parasites A lean clean r ra bif z better than any medic medicine I 1 fodder for litter no poultry flock that obes its 16 dut duty Y dorsit without litter it Is an inels pen pep sahle in every poultry hou house se especially where there winter egg egge are ile sired ns well as healthy and contented c 0 ti tented fowls somo farmers comp lalA that it Is a waste to use ta straw to permit the bobov i takht atch ch 1 in it never Is a wast aspre mhd straw la Is riot not plenty plent yB I 1 lira lir 8 corn fodder or even the fodder males makes a mighty via litter itter J |