The Farm-poultry . before, and my hens are all infine condition, chickens too, for that matter,only for their throat trouble. I have not lostone of them. They run in weight from 4 to54 lbs.; breed Plymouth Rock. I have notany started to lay yet, but are well pinked generally start them laying middle ofNovember. Do you suppose It will be anydetriment to their laying qualification? Imight just state that the cockerel I bred fromalways had a slight rattle in his throat, espe-cially if I chased him a little. I trust you willbe able to gather from what I have said some-thing of the trouble and


The Farm-poultry . before, and my hens are all infine condition, chickens too, for that matter,only for their throat trouble. I have not lostone of them. They run in weight from 4 to54 lbs.; breed Plymouth Rock. I have notany started to lay yet, but are well pinked generally start them laying middle ofNovember. Do you suppose It will be anydetriment to their laying qualification? Imight just state that the cockerel I bred fromalways had a slight rattle in his throat, espe-cially if I chased him a little. I trust you willbe able to gather from what I have said some-thing of the trouble and recommend a specificin your columns. The trouble in this case is easily traced tothe cockerel from which the stock was bred,and I presume that it would be a very diflicultmatter and in many cases impossible to get ridof it. I have sometimes had lots of chickenswhich showed very plainly inherited weak-nesses of this kind, and I always made it arule to go through the stock and kill every msupposapiuummas tmaroucAHun. GUfLHANTtED FIRSt PRliE WINNERS WHn WOCVA,KM DOGS. FBfiptmK/tOHm. THOftF werDomr wimas ^gOQI^ Bud mr Em Poultry Ymm m -nn nur a roa ny PKnram ms wnx as kymi/ownrMMMtm^mm-oirstncuu ft cKm 3000&IID OVn UtftNG SHED BlRin. BKD ORStMlUnLIMES rOI MEAT tU PIIOOUCTIOH rodSTDOUHGnMPOSCS. ElMMULtRfYARDS MB, HAinTORO,;*.-«><M S RHODE ISLAND REDS. (Jondi H. I. lied enckerels from $3 up: ak5 few pullets from $2 up. Also young Indian Run-ner drakes each. Address, White Birch Farmor W. H. .Vithliiglou, Union St., Bridgewater. ^ R. :ind S. Conih K. 1. Reds on free range. utility lired, hardy, prolilic lavers. ; cockerels $2; a reduction on ten or over; year-liug breeders SI each. \V. West Stockholm, St. Law. Co., TRAP NESTS. rj-lUls lUKAL shows which hen laid tlie II is worth while. For iuformation, write to theoii;rinalor of practical trapnesting. Frank I). \Vellcome, Yarmouth, Maine. • WA


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