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Show WORK IN THE POULTRY YARD First Thing of Importance Is to Open Houses, Allowing Fowls Benefit of Fresh Air. (By M. K. BOTER.) The routine work on the poultry farm consists, first, of opening up the houses and allowing the fowls the benefit of the fresh air. Then comes the breakfast; then the drinking water; then cleaning up the droppings of the night. Following this is looking after the trap nests, making repairs, taking care of the Incubators and brooders, and general chores.. At night, again the feeding and at dusk emptying out the drinking vessels, ves-sels, examining the houses that all may be found well, and locking the doors. But there are other duties changing chang-ing male birds, examining the fowls on the roost and removing such aa show signs of colds or illness, watching watch-ing for feather pullers, doctoring torn combs and wattles, and a multitude of things that call for constant attention. All these matterB repeat themselves from Monday morning until Sunday night It is the routine -work, this sameness that so quickly discourage the beginner begin-ner and makes him quit the work early in life. More people would be fitted for poultry work if they could content themselves with this repeated Bame-ness. Bame-ness. To them it becomes monotonous. monoton-ous. They want something different; they cannot get it in the poultry business busi-ness and bo they change their occupation. |