. Conkey's poultry book : a handy book of reference on poultry raising. Poultry; Poultry; Poultry. the poultrytnan a chance to do this—for with his trap nests to show what each heri is doing he can tell which fowls are money makers, and which are merely boarders and loafers. Laying qualities will vary greatly, even with hens of the same strain and under the same good treatment. Keep the hens having the best trap nest records. Watch the winter trap nest records especially. Keep these profitable birds for breeding. One of the greatest helps of the trap nest system is that it makes it possible fo
. Conkey's poultry book : a handy book of reference on poultry raising. Poultry; Poultry; Poultry. the poultrytnan a chance to do this—for with his trap nests to show what each heri is doing he can tell which fowls are money makers, and which are merely boarders and loafers. Laying qualities will vary greatly, even with hens of the same strain and under the same good treatment. Keep the hens having the best trap nest records. Watch the winter trap nest records especially. Keep these profitable birds for breeding. One of the greatest helps of the trap nest system is that it makes it possible for the poultry man to identify each egg, know just which hen laid it and by her record decide whether it should be kept for hatching. It isn't always the good looking hen that lays the egg and frequently some of the best layers are sacrificed at the end of the season, while good looking but poorly performing fowls are kept over for breeding. Then the poultryman wonders why it is that his stock grows more and more shiftless about laying. The man with the trap nest knows—not only what each hen is doing but what he himself is doing by his system of THE FRESH AIR HOUSE The Tolman Twentieth Century Fresh Air House is probably the most popular of the extreme type in this house and the steady increase in the number used each year indicates they are giving general satisfaction. With this house the south end is run wide open summer and winter, storm or shine. It can be Used in the coldest sections of the United States and many parts of Canada, but in bleak and extremely cold locations where the temper- ature goes to zero and frequently below it would be well to arrange a coarse muslin curtain to drop in front of the roost platform at night during the most severe weather. There are several strong points in favor of this house, the chief one being that it promotes health, vigor, a good egg yield with increased fertility and solves the question of perfect ventilation. Breatlj-
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