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Show pgW Gather eggs daily. The profits in poultry culture are measured by the care given. It is useless to expect many eggs from old fowls of any variety. All scraps of vegetables from the table should be given to the hens. A poultryman is judged by his surroundings sur-roundings and the condition of his fowls. Hens need to be provided with a summer dust bath as well as in the winter. Grit enables the gizzard to prepare the food for digestion. It Is a fowl s false teeth. The dropping-boards should be regularly reg-ularly cleaned and the filth removed from the houses. It is of little profit to have a good supply of eggs If we cannot market them to advantage. A large part of the heavy loss from bad eggs can he obviated by the production pro-duction of infertile eggs. The market age of goslings is twelve weeks, which is a short time after they have feathered out. Chickens are creatures of habit. Whether they are lazy or active de pends largely on the way they are raised. The enemies of the fresh egg market mar-ket are the preserved and the tested j out incubator eggs. Be above such ; trickery. I Guinea fowls do not mate in pairs like pigeons or doves. One male ta 1 several fowls is the proper way to mate them. At the present day many poultry-men poultry-men grind part of their chicken feed Into a meal so it can be fed into either a dry ov wet mash. ' Any breed of hens will consume an enormous quantity of feed before commencing to lay, but after having once begun will not require so much train as before. |