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Show Poultry Notes Let the chicks fast for 4 S hours after f leaving the shell. A dead chick is valueless, but & sici i one is worse than that. Many poultry houses are merelj poor roosting rooms. The young turkey, to do well, nu19' have plenty of exercise.. To thrive best, fowls need plenty ol bulky food as well as grain. Corn makes fat and heat. Oats, wheat, bran and middlings make eggs The reason for unprofitable hens 1 often not so far away as the heD house. Baled oats mnke fine straw to' scratch pens. Feed all grain in deep litter. It's a wise poultryman that can tell from the cackle of a hen whether sh has laid or lied. No man would try to 'run a com sheller with as little attention as sou people give their incubator. Cold storage men claim that bro'" eggs, being heavier and thicker, serve better than white shelled ones-Fresh ones-Fresh air and clean drinking W,e' are easy to supply and there is plent' j of both in tho well regulated po"llr- plant. You cannot nrako money rn'jn little chickens unless you nro wl" -to gh-c them curoful and palnsta1 li tem Ion. |