Poultry Pickings

If you buy an incubator get a good one. All breeds of fowls have certain poiuts in their favor. Poultry are early risers and need their morniug meal early. The comb of a fovvl may be considered as its healthy indicator. One advantage with ducks is that if properly fed they are rarely siek. Turnips and potatoes are best fed by boiling and mixing with wheat bran. Get the guineas to roost in or near the poultry house ; they will act as guarda. Ducks raised especially for rnarket thrive better without a pond than with one. Mix a little flax seed or oil meal with their ration now in feeding the moulting hen. When fowls are kept in large mimbers the risks of contagious diseases are increased. Poultry must have every day care, and judgment must be used in the management. Better do a little and do it well rather than undertake to do too much and fail to do anything well. So far as it can be avoided, nothing that will cause dampuess should be used in the poultry house. If poultry are confined, if they are not given a good variety tliey eat much that had better be let alone. The nests and roosts should always be easy of accesB in order to make the work ! of keeping down the lice much easier. While chickens thrive best in small i numbers or fiocks, ducks seein to do I better when a large nuniber are kept ] together. !