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RAISING AND TREATMENT OF POULTRY. — 
Corn is the most congenial food for domestic ee of 
all kinds. It ought to be fed as much without cracking to 
the young as soon as possible, and always have food by them. 
Eight quarts of corn will supply the wants of fourteen dung- 
hill fowls for seven days in winter. If you wish your fowls 
to lay in winter, you must house them warm, and in~ 
cold weather give them plenty of slops made of potatoes and 
wheat bran, once a day, and have a box of sand, lime, 
gravel, and pounded earthen, to go to when they please. 
Change your fowls often, and see that they have boxes with 
plenty of nesting. If you wish them to hatch, set them as 
much as possible on the ground, and as early as possible in 
April and May. Set three or four hen’s at once, if possible, 
and when they hatch put all the chickens to one hen, and 
coop or yard | them separately, on loose ground, where there 
re plenty ‘of angle-worms. Spade the ground a little every 
day. Give them in winter, now-and-then, some fresh meat. 
Roasted bones, powdered, will facilitate their laying, and 
make them healthy. Never yard your chickens on a chip 
yard. Keep plenty of wind-mills around your house and 
the hawks will not trouble your fowls. If you wish to keep 
off foxes and skunks, keep a hound dog. If you wish to 
make turkeys profitable, yard them in a pasture till they get 
able to run well—then let them run and catch grasshoppers 
and flies. If you wish to keep geese and ducks, have a small 
pond or marsh, with a small outlet, and let them runin sum- 
mer. Let them have dry resting places, and in winter house 
