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Show PoultryNotes The wire nest has much to commend com-mend it. A neglected hen will lay in summer but never in winter. Scraps saved at butchering time make a fine egg stimulating feed in cold weather. A dozen eggs will buy almost a bushel of oats. And oats make a , good winter feed for eggs. Hens that are let out into the cold and snow are soon chilled out of the egg-laying notion. For quick fattening, nothing heats a mash of corn meal and milk, fed warm about three times a day. If the house is damp scatter some' dry ashes and air slaked lime about. They are good absorbents. Running an incubator is a job for a grown person. Better not let the ' .. children have anything to do with it. It is a good plan to make the nest bottoms of poultry wire. That makes them easy to clean and a poor harbor for mites and lice. Ducks kept up in winter will be found to thrive better if their, corn is soaked in warm water instead of feeding feed-ing it hard and dry. A light case of roup may often be-cured be-cured by ducking the sick bird's head in a mixture of one ounce permanganate per-manganate of potash to three pints of water. The weather is changeable these L days and the incubator will bor close , watching unless kept in a building where the temperature is very uniform uni-form despite' outside changes. Every farmer keeps chickens and if they would give their poultry tho same care their other stock gets they might all have winter eggs. Pigeons take care of the feeding of squabs and that saves a lot of bother. The mighty mite is more qttiet these cold winter days, but he isnt dead. Gapes can he cured by fumigating the chicken with sulphur. The first thing after nrNirp up sni Incubator is to select a place Kr ! |