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Show PoultpyNotes Cater to the market. Capons sell best when choice gamo cannot be exposed for sale. It must not be forgotten that food flavors the flesh as well as the egg. The'niost certain way of identifying poultry roup Is a characteristic sickening sick-ening odor. Don't overfeed the first week of fattening. fat-tening. Rather feed lightly three times a day. Have everything ready beforehand ind start your hatching operations early, in the year. Whole corn is a good feed for setting set-ting hens. Water, grit and dust baths should also be provided. Cornmeal, meat and potatoes are three of the most valuable ingredients ingredi-ents in the fattening bill of fare. A hen cannot lay an egg unless she aas the food with which to make it. 3rain alone cannot make many eggs. Do not compel the hens to eat snow for drink. Give them plenty of clean water, slightly warmed, three times a day. Dirty nests and dirty floors mean dirty eggs and dirty eggs never fetch the highest prices neither do washed ones. Pullets and hens with coarse, mas-suiine-looking heads seldom make qrcod layers and it is wise to dispose of such early in the season. Mating birds with two extremes of color will never produce a medium color. Both fides of the mating should be as near risht as possible. See that the incubator Is running 1 steadily at the desired temperature before be-fore filling it with eggs. Do not add eggs to a machine during incubation. |