. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 384 ffijje gneeeta* mxb §p&vi#mmu [June 16, 1900 Fowl Hints. Dast is life to bens. Feed little at a time and feed often. Usually the sooner a sick hen is killed the better. Pea fowls are generally ill-natured. Give the fowls both room and reason for scratching. Exercise is better than drags as a stimulant for egg production. Most of the diseases of poultry are the result of poor management. Continued early breeding will soon take the life oat of pare bred fowls. It is a Bafe rale with poultry to keep some of the old fowls for breeding. For the poultry house
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 384 ffijje gneeeta* mxb §p&vi#mmu [June 16, 1900 Fowl Hints. Dast is life to bens. Feed little at a time and feed often. Usually the sooner a sick hen is killed the better. Pea fowls are generally ill-natured. Give the fowls both room and reason for scratching. Exercise is better than drags as a stimulant for egg production. Most of the diseases of poultry are the result of poor management. Continued early breeding will soon take the life oat of pare bred fowls. It is a Bafe rale with poultry to keep some of the old fowls for breeding. For the poultry house cement makes the best floor. Two-thirds glycerine and one-third car- bolic acid is a good remedy for scaly legs. Confinement and inertness generate vicious habits, such as egg eating and feather pulling A good farm breed is one that is hardy, a good layer, good brooder, fine meated and readily fattened. Do not imagine when you pay a high price for eggs for hatching that all the chickens are good for breeding purposes. Feather eating is rarely acquired where the fowls have a free range, bat is quite common where fowls are closely confined. The most useful knowledge ib that which, when put into practice, will keep the fowls healthy. Prevention is better than a cure. Many a case of indigestion may be traced to a heavy feed in the morning and the next meal taken from the leavings after it has been trampled in the dirt. With turkeys for breeders select both males and females that are broad across the back, squarely built and short legged, carefully avoiding in-breeding. To fatten fowls economically they matt not be allowed their liberty or much of the food will literally ran away. If allowed too much light they will fret on account of their con- finement In buying fowls, especially for breeding, they should be reasonably well matured, in order that their good points as well as dis- qualifications may be seen. While it is pos- sible to see that a fowl is single or rose combed, feat
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