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Show PEWMK Health, goes with a clean body, in-aitif in-aitif as well as out. . Plcmy of grit for the flock will '.mean fewer digestive troubles. lx-sV.orns are nervous fowls, and excitement ex-citement decreases the egg yield. A lousy, dyspeptic fowl is a very wed representative of the cholera rictims. Never place ducks in close, stuffy ijuartnrs. They need plenty of air and ary floors. A London remedy for roup is about tlireo drops of camphor on a piece of bread. A damp henhouse is a disease breeder, breed-er, and dampness and tilth are a very bad combination. No wonder some men's hens never wei.?h anything. The lice have just .about carried them. .Spraying a chicken house with 1 to 2l solution of lime-sulphur will ef-K'vcti'.ally ef-K'vcti'.ally destroy all nits and lice. Middlings and corn meal wet with sk;m milk makes a fine forcing feed For culls that are to be marketed. A j-ood nest egg may be made by tilow-ii.s; out the contents of an egg i-.rd filing the shell with wet cement. Are .the hens roosting out on the trees these cold nights? Better get them in and avoid frozen combs and feet. Those vtbo have tried it claim that a teaspooriful of Venetian red In a jrflllun of drinking water .Is a ..good .bowel trouble, preventive. i |