Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1912-11-08 | Page 3 | Poultry Notes

Keep something In the grit box. Poultry keeping is business of quid . profits. Suggestions of fall weather are re- ! viving egg prices. j Plowing up runs and yards is a ; ! seasonable job any time. All the milk they will consume is 6 help to tbe molting hens. Corn makes fat and heat. Oats, ' wheat, bran and middlings make eggs. Not a bit of decayed food of any t kind ever ought to be given a hen oi . chick. Too many birds in a house simply can not do so well as they would otherwise. oth-erwise. Before the roads get frozen, scrape up some dust for winter use. Put It ' ln a dry place. Ten hens that have room according to their strength will bring ln more money than fifteen crowded, j When we get a good many chlcki on hand there la a temptation to j crowd them during the winter seasoa