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Show Good grit is sharp. See to that when you buy. Meat scraps that are partly decayed are dangerous to feed. Housing ducks and geese with chickens chick-ens is not a good plan. Mashes that are too warm when fed lay the birds liable to colds. The modern hen house has everything every-thing in it readily movable. . A recommended cure for sorehead is an ointment made of one part ker- . osene and two parts lard. Y It is .not good for a fowl to be carried car-ried by the legs unless you are carrying carry-ing it to the chopping block. One advantage in using an incubator incu-bator is that it keeps all the hens laying lay-ing when eggs are up in price. On warm, sunny days it is a good idea to open all doors and windows of the hen house for a thorough airing. Cresol stirred up in water and used as a spray is a good disinfectant where there has been a contagious disease. When an egg is severely chilled It weakens the germ for hatching. Eggs for hatching should be kept at a moderate mod-erate temperature. It does not take long to lowpr vitality vi-tality by Inbreeding. New roosters or some eggs for hatching from a good flock solve the problem. Chickens that are off feed have often of-ten been brought back by putting a tablespoonful of Epsom salts in the feed for each ten hens. When city folks can make money with chickens In a cramped back lot, there certainly ought to be money In f farm raised poultry. And there is. No matter how long any of the leading breeders have been in the business, bus-iness, they do not raise all prkr-wln-ners. There are culls in every flock. Turning out the flock whenever the weather is good will give the hens a chance to pick up food elements that are lacking from their daily ration. Next to pure air, water Is the cheapest cheap-est thing we can supply to our poultry. poul-try. Do not forget that it must be given In order to get i'RB- Herinre the quantity and the egg yield wil' also be reduced. |