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Show i jj The caponizing season is at an end. Start the trap nests if you are keeping keep-ing a record of your winter layers. The battle with vermin is a never-ending never-ending one, because the lice never quit. The early pullets are beginning to lay, but, as a general thing, eggs are very scarce. The best remedy for sick fowls is the ax, but with proper precaution they won't get sick. Two or three applications of kerosene kero-sene to scaly legs makes as sure a remedy re-medy as can be found. There are those who begin with scrubs, jntending to keep purebreds later on, hut they seldom do. It is possible for the hens to lay when shedding their feathers, but not when growing the new crop. Chaff about straw stacks makes good scratching litter and the sooner it is hauled up the better it will be. If the poultry-house is overcrowded, kill off some of the older birds. Keep 1 stocked up with young thrifty layers. Those old hens may be valuable as "keep sakes" but the young and vigorous vigor-ous ones will produce the most eggs. Do give the later summer-hatched chicks a chance to eat their meals without being run over by older birds. Excited men and women make ex cited birds, and that has a bad effect on the egg-producing mechanism of the birds. Sell all the old hens that you do not intend to winter. At this season they command a reasonably good price in market. Get in your winter supplies and utensils this includes the incubators and brooders, and what new stock you must purchase. I You may think you know a good j deal about how to raise poultry, but the deeper you go into It the more surprises you will find. |