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is best to have a warm room on purpose for setting hens. 

 The best phm is to take a Jot of old flour barrels, saw them 

 in halves, and make a nest in each half, of moist earth covered 

 with straw. That from an old straw bed is the best. 



When you fliul a hen on her nest at night, let her stay on 

 one or two nights, so as to be sure she means business. 

 Then carefully move her in the night, and put her in one of 

 the nests ready prepared in the setting room ; give her a 

 few old nest eggs, and cover the barrel so tliat she cannot 

 get out. The next day let her off to eat, and put her back 

 carefully. In a day or two she will go back of her own 

 accord. Then give her from nine to thirteen eggs, accord- 

 ing to the size of the hen and the weather. If it is cold 

 nine are enough. See that the hen comes off every day to 

 eat and drink. Let her stay off from ten to thirty minutes, 

 if it is not too cold. Keep ashes in the room to wallow in, 

 and sprinkle the nest with sulphur to kill lice. Sprinkle 

 the eggi> with water warmed to blood heat, two or three 

 times the last ten days the hen is setting. Always feed 

 whole grain to setting hens. Corn is the best, but give a 

 change. I have had hens set seven weeks and come off in 

 good condition. 



Let the chickens etay in the nest the first twenty-four 

 hours unless the hen is very uneasy. It is best to coop the 

 hen. and let the chickens run until a few weeks old. Put 

 the coop in a dry, sunny place. Do not have a floor to your 

 coop unless the ground is wet and cold ; but if a floor must 

 be used, keep it covered with dry ashes or sand, and be sure 

 and keep it clean. 



Feed the chickens often ; at first feed every two hours, 



