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Show PdultryNotes Don't raise scrub chickens. Don't use too heavy a cock bird with your females. Poultry constitutes a very good minor min-or source of farm profit. Early turkeys are what pay and these can only be had from early laid eggs. Condiments that stimulate egg production pro-duction are very much like anything that stimulates a"human being. Some tell the sex of the guinea fowl by its wattles. Those of the male are ; double the size of the female. A chicken's stomach is not made of ' iron, and the same diet day after day harms them as much as It does a human. hu-man. Running the incubator Is like most i other things, we get results largely in , proportion to the work we do our- - selves. Ventilation in the chicken house I i a very Important consideration, and i the health of the fowls, in a great , measure, depends on it. i The breast of the Indian game ia ' very much like that of the pheasant - or the prairie chicken. The heft ol the meat lies on the breast. |