Notes On Poultry

Do not put up an expensive poultry building beceuae some milllonalre seta thc example. If the duoks and vese are picked regularly durlng The summer and eari. tall they will not moult. It is not the state of the maTket that causes failure in poultry keeping, but the state of the mind of the poultry keeper. The lazy man never makes endw meet ón a poultry farm. Drones can never expeet hens to ïwp them in idleness. The scraps from the table soake-,1 in sweet milk until soft make a good feed for young turkics. egpeclaJly iu the summer. Don't be afraid to glve your fowle plenty of clean water. It wlll not hurt the.m, though jud&ing by appearance of the drinkins vessels in niany yards, one would be led to think the OTvner thought so. At least once a week the hens shonld have a feeding of charcoal, or nubbins of corn on the ear may le burned and fed. At this season, aftw a long winters' confinement in gmall pens, and.before an abundance of green food cnji be ofotalned, tlie charcoal wlll be found a ood alte.rative and an improved condition wiJl follow its use. Take down tlio.se ladder-ahaped roo.sts whfch have caused the death of so many hens. and try for one year the plan of liavins them all on a level and about 20 inclK'.s apart, with a tloorimg about eiirht luches beSow to catch the dressing. Make the roosts out of l!x2 with the comiera sliavcd off and arraage them to drop in sockets at each end, so tlicy can easKy 1k' and Ireqnently washed to Ikill insects and vermin.