. The open door to independence; making money from the soil; what to do--how to do, on city lots, suburban grounds, country farms, together with outline maps of all parts of the United States, irrigated regions, climates, cities, villages, market towns, locations and populations . e can be made by cracking a mixture ofwheat, corn, and egg shells. Any good poultryjournal will give valuable hints upon the subject ofraising chickens in brooders. Disease and Lice in -Fowls Disease and lice are the great obstacles to beovercome in poultry raising. The houses may bekept free from lice, by a liberal
. The open door to independence; making money from the soil; what to do--how to do, on city lots, suburban grounds, country farms, together with outline maps of all parts of the United States, irrigated regions, climates, cities, villages, market towns, locations and populations . e can be made by cracking a mixture ofwheat, corn, and egg shells. Any good poultryjournal will give valuable hints upon the subject ofraising chickens in brooders. Disease and Lice in -Fowls Disease and lice are the great obstacles to beovercome in poultry raising. The houses may bekept free from lice, by a liberal use of keroseneemulsion and by whitewashing. Whitewash servesa double purpose, that of ridding the house of liceand making the interior much lighter. A smallwindow, with the interior of the house white-washed, will make the building as light as a muchlarger window without the whitewash. If thepoultry houses are kept free from lice, the fowlscan usually be depended upon to keep themselvesfree by a liberal use of the dust bath. If, how-ever, body lice are found, they may be successfullytreated by dusting insect powder under the feathersin the evening and allowing the fowls to remainundisturbed on the perches after the treatment. 344 Technical Terms Relating to Domestic Fowls. (A)—Comb; (B)—Face; (C)—Wattles; (D)—Ear Lobes; (E)—Hackle: (F)—Breast:—Thighs; (S)—Hocks: (T)—Shanks; (U)—Spurs; (V)—Toes. GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TEKMS Barred, Barring. — Alternatestripes of light and dark across afeather. Beard.—A bunch of feathersunder the throat of some breeds,as Houdans or Polish. Breast.—In a live fowl, thefront of the body above the pointof the breastbone, up to thethroat. In a table fowl (dead)the breast is below this, andwould be called the under partof the body in the live bird. Breed.—Any variety of fowl inall its distinct breed includes all the varie-ties of color which are foundin it. Brood.—The family of chickensunder one hen o
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