Show F LAYING HENS ARE ANXIOUS TO QUIT goodplan to keep them in in house until noon laying lading liens ore are looking for any excuse to quit laying of nt tills season of the year says it E cray extension poultry specialist nt at the ohio state anh ersley lilt but there aro are several ways to fool them cray recommends recommend Fi that the layers be kept in the house until noon or the middle of the afternoon to increase const consumption of mash ration the mhd morning grain feed should be reduced or eliminated ellmina tedi and wet nil ash should he be ad nt at noon to the n amount of four orfice or five pounds to each birdi regular dry mash moistened with milk Is suitable for this meal at the same time the amount of milk which Is being bedito the th elay layers should be increased if comfort for the tha kajing hen in hot weather lier Is an important Im t factor in determining d ter mining whether slie she will or will not quit laying the lay laying ing ho house I 1 i fie should be ba well ventilated and kept as cool as for tills reason green feed in liberal ninn unto will help maintain the laying record of the liens and pullets as ivell as contribute to their general gool good health influence of minerals on growth of chicks experiments at the wisconsin sin n tion show that chals were fed the ilie Wise wisconsin Dusin ration of eighty parts pails ground yellow sellow corn coin twenty parts arild ive five parts chick size bone meal five parts chick size ground limestone and one part salt v alth ith free access to skim aklin milk did ciuch better in recent tests than chicks thit th it were nvere fed rations in which part of the minerals were left out nut in ten weeks the lie chicks which were fed the regular ration given above weighed grams A similar lot in winch which the brine mel meal was left out grew tn in nn an average of ASO crams while A lut lot that failed to have limestone included in their rution ration wel glied granis grams at the age of nineteen weeks the chicks weighed 1107 ani grams respectively for the different lots the above tests show the need of including minerals in the chick ration A ration containing wilk milk or milk byproducts combined with minerals in the approximate proportion used in the wisconsin ration forms the lie baaij for most of the successful cl chick ick start ins ing mai bailies mn lies yellow corn Is a good ingredient for one of the grains as it c contains n plentiful supply of vitamin A the mud of other cereals used tines ines not matter so BO much so long as they are pally easily digested and attractive to the chicks natural mother found best for young chicks give me a mother with feet and feathers instead of a brooder an old fashioned insists neham his hens set in batteries of twelve each hmains hen ancl her brood to herself the divisions being made with poultry netting vorn and water nrc supplied to the hens hem to discourage their gobbling up the more expensive clif chick ck feed the coops and are moved often to fresh ground hut the liens anre not let out until the lie chicks chich 9 are weaned the edge of the strawberry bed garden or corn field are the favorite parking places of tills breeder for his hens and chicha feeding green corn A common method of feeding green corn la Is to chop it into short pieces and allow the hens to pick it off the cob c ob in such cases the should he be careful to see that the birds crops are full at night even though some of the green corn may be consumed it would lie be a good iden idea to feed sonic some shelled lerl corn fit n night to insure birds going to roost wilh wild full crops the thief dangers danger from green corn feeding arp are intestinal disorders disorder nud pirt partially frilly filled crops but if the realizes these dangers he will introduce new corn cora to advantage vigorous hybrids in a study of hybrid vigor in poul try at kansas experiment station white leghorns Leg horns borns and rhode island reds were used in id the pure breeds the mortality of the birds up to three weeks of age was 56 and 63 per ent cent respectively while that of the hybrids was 14 per cent the hybrids of both sexes outgrew the pure bred offspring the mating of the IPg leghorn born males and red females produced more rapidly growing offspring than those of the reciprocal cross poultry worst t enemy nemy lice are arc ahe worst enemy eneany boults i have to fight they are ns usually found between the quill feathers of the wing lice will wili kill a quicker than they will a chich boults are very sensitive to strong odors odora in treating them for lice it la Is well to use ns as little lice powder as possible hut but be sure it la Is fresh sodium fluoride Is used by the pinch method on boults after they tire are three weeks old the lien hen that la Is given cpus of any kind bo well dusted with sodium fluoride |