. What to plant and how to plant it and fancy poultry for profit and pleasure. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Jacksonville Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. POULTRY DEPARTMENT 53. Imperial Pekin Ducks. top of the feeding part can be the same length as end pieces, hen 4 feet long and 12 inches wide and high, with no bottom, one end, ready to put a little litter in, and set the hen. Once each day, about 11 o'clock, raise the slide and allow the hen to go out into the feeding run, e
. What to plant and how to plant it and fancy poultry for profit and pleasure. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Jacksonville Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. POULTRY DEPARTMENT 53. Imperial Pekin Ducks. top of the feeding part can be the same length as end pieces, hen 4 feet long and 12 inches wide and high, with no bottom, one end, ready to put a little litter in, and set the hen. Once each day, about 11 o'clock, raise the slide and allow the hen to go out into the feeding run, eat, drink and dust herself in dry dust, which should be provided, and after an hour or so, when she has returned to the nest, close the slide. We always make it a practice to put them off the nest, if they do not go of their own accord when the slide is opened, and if there is any broken eggs or filth in the nest, clean it out and wash off the sound eggs with warm water. When the hen is set, and a few days before due to hatch, dust her thoroughly with some good insect powder ; this will generally prevent lice from ever get- ting a start on the chickens. ^•IWIWtMHIWIMIMIAItWIMIMISttnAtWIWIiaiWIWIMIiaHttlWIWIWMftlWIWIWIMIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWtWIW { CANPY Pnill TRY DAYC it is as easy to keep good layers and good table fowls as mongrel S 2 rMllwl rUULI nl rMTOi stock, you get more eggs and a better price for your poultry. S Bear in mind when you purchase a sitting of eggs for hatching, it is not the 13 eggs that you are paying for, but the stock thev are expected to produce. A sitting of eggs that will produce choice, high-scoring stock, even if but few of them, is worth many dozen from inferior or mongrel stock. Never order eggs until you have a hen that has been sitting long enough to let you know she means business, as it will not pay to let her break a lot of expensive eggs, or desert the nest after sitting on them for a few days. The nest should be on the
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