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Show POULTRY NOTES A truckload of capons, turkeys and chickens was sent to the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia market recently by 42 Tad-kin Tad-kin county (N. C.) farmers at a not profit of SW.0-1 to the growers. No permanent laying house should be built without consldera- tion as to nest tjpe ' "" se and sufficient land baek and front so that rotation of yards may be practiced. An attempt to obtain production of larger ensrs by culling hens at a hateherv in Fort Atkinson, Wis., brought results when a Phode Island Is-land Red laid an e:z which weighed a quarter of a pound. shade Is Important. Sometimes j one can provide natural shade, but I in other cases artificial shade may i be necessary. Pe'S plenty of i ghade, be sure that the praltrj house has proper ventilation. |