Show IL TO MAKE HENS LAY IN SUMMER SEASON wet mash suggested by a new york college man it if the poultry flock lays few eggs in lato late summer slimmer feed a wet mash ad vises aises L M hurd of the new york state college of agriculture when skim mIlk Is available use it to wet the regular mash or use semisolid buttermilk ter mIll at the rate of two pounds to the hundred the crumbly wet mash may 1 be fed late in the afternoon just before the night grain feeding the hens should have only what they can eat in twenty minutes another plan Is useful when no milk Is available rill fill a pill pall one half full of iry dry oats and then fil fill to the top with water lot let the oats stand from one afternoon to the next and add enough of the regular dry mash to absorb the remaining moisture feed the same amount aud at the same time as the milk mash wet mash feeding usually begins in late july or august mr hurd sug bug bests no change in quarters or in feed formula provide nn an abundance of tender green food hive have fresh wa ter at all times furnish shade and do not allow red mites to attack the flock lie also suggests suggest adding two pounds of tobacco lust dust to each one hundred pounds of mash to aid in controlling worm and which are thought to contribute contil hute to paralysis the tobacco lust dut should lt be guaranteed to contain I 1 per cent nicotine sulphate hens offspring best indicator of ability A han may be a good egg layer b hut lit that la Is no guaranty tint that her daughters will be good layers even when she Is s mated with a sire whose female parent was a heavy layer laser a three thre ce year experiment by bv the united 9 states at s department part ment of agriculture u tt r 0 1 indicates n die progeny testing that Is the testing of 0 the laying laving ability of a hens daugh Is the most reliable buldo to that hens ability to produce good layers the department found the common practice of attempting to improve erg egg production by selecting breeding stock on the basis of egg production cannot be depended upon to bring the desired results the experiment made by dr morley A jull jul department poultry specialist shows the department tested single comb white leghorn hens bens the daugh of 19 selected sires and 15 selected dams fit at its animal husbandry experiment farm at beltsville md aid the tests showed that the egg pro of a sires dam had little significance sag ance in determining his ability to produce good progeny that a given sire mated to a given dam may produce good progeny but that the same sire mated to another dam may produce peor poor progeny that the same was true for differing sires and a given dam that full sisters mated to the same sire frequently produced diverse results that the average egg production of a group of full fill sisters could not 0 t be used as a basia for judging a any n y on one of the sisters for breeding possibilities lice on poultry lice do not feed on blood like red mites but eat cat dried skin or bits of 0 feather writes a correspondent in the indiana farmers guide they may mav eat blood from small skin wounds but do not suck the blood like red mites the lice are constantly crawling over the skin both day and night and cause much discomfort to the hens ilens hens are nervous sensitive birds and probably puffer more from lice than is commonly realized reali sed eggs must be eggs aggs it seems just have to be eggs in connecticut under ander a bill passed parsed in the house of the general assembly under the terms of the measure eggs m be designated as fresh eggs ile ald id storage eggs preserved eggs or 01 incubated eggs flo however wever the bill adds it if nn an egg does not conform to any of these classifications hut but still Is wholesome and edible it may be designated merely as ile begs g |