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Show POULTRY NOTES. All hens like to lay in dark nest boxes. No matter where you live, poultry can be made profitable. The incubator never changes its niitid. It stays on the job. Late hatched turkeys should never be used for breeding purposes. In brooder raising special attention should be paid to the breeding stock. Coal oil and carbolic acid are good lice and mite killers, as well as disinfectants. disin-fectants. As a rule, hens that desire to sit are fat, though there are occasional exceptions. It is important in caring for sitting hens to have the nests so arranged that one can shut the hens in. A plump young turkey, dressing from 8 to 15 pounds, finds a market at almost any season of the year. Don't be tempted to sell your best birds unless you have some better ones in view to take their places. Nothing worse than damp brooder floor to start chick ills. Cover them with a little dry earth or old carpet. Some hens seem to know when it is feeding time. It will pay you to humor them and be prompt and regular. regu-lar. Ashes scattered about the floor help to keep it clean, help keep the air pure and have some value as disinfectants. disin-fectants. It is best that the young turkeys become be-come accustomed to their attendant and to all persons and animals about the place. Hoard floors in poultry houses are objectionable for ma.ny reasons, and should ne-er be used where dirt floors can be provided. Any egg-eaters in the flock? Make the nests as dark as possible; that will help. If that doesn't discourage the culprit, sharpen the ax. It is advisable to place a box of grit or coarse sand where the turkeys can find it. as not' ail farms have sufficient suffi-cient quantity for the purpose of good digestion. The nests in the poultry house need not necessarily be expensive affairs, hut they should be strong and substantial sub-stantial sind at the same time comfortable comfort-able for the layers when they go on them. |
