. Biggle poultry book; a concise and practical treatise on the management of farm poultry. dry and a narrow strip of muslin, tie their feet together,lay them on their backs, tuck their wings underthem, let an assistant take hold of the head, and assoon as they are done struggling begin to pluck. There are no disease germs in fresh eggs. Poultry products sell for cash, and can be sold at any important points in favor of the hen business. In long houses, instead of an entry and tramway for carry-ing feed and water have an overhead track and suspend a plat-form car on which to
. Biggle poultry book; a concise and practical treatise on the management of farm poultry. dry and a narrow strip of muslin, tie their feet together,lay them on their backs, tuck their wings underthem, let an assistant take hold of the head, and assoon as they are done struggling begin to pluck. There are no disease germs in fresh eggs. Poultry products sell for cash, and can be sold at any important points in favor of the hen business. In long houses, instead of an entry and tramway for carry-ing feed and water have an overhead track and suspend a plat-form car on which to carry buckets and boxes. Will be useful,also, in cleaning the house, carrying manure out and freshgravel in.—Tim. The crops of fowls should be empty when sent to best way to secure this condition is not to feed for at leasttwelve hours before killing. If for any reason the crop be fullafter killing, make a cut two inches long through the thick skinon back of the neck, insert the finger in the incision, draw outthe crop and cut it off. The mutilation will not be Chapter XV. PIGEONS FOR MARKET. A bird in the loft is worth two in the pot-hunters a neighborhood where pigeons fty both peas and peacetake wing.—Tim. mT^ The old practice of fastening nest- H boxes on the outside of building and j^^W^ allowing the occupants to range at will is ^ 4«t not |-0 be commended- However made they present an unsightly appearance, and pigeons at liberty in a community are an intolerable nuisance. It is better in every way to have a separate build-ing for pigeons, and to have an outside fly of wirenetting connected with it and thus to keep the birdsconfined at all seasons. This plan is especially recom-mended when any considerable number is kept. The accompanyingillustration shows a loft withthe breeding-room eight b^sixteen feet and a cage jrfly sixteen by sixteen feetthat will accommodate twenty to forty pairs. Inbuilding it posts are set firmly in the ground,
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