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Mrs. AsiiBV .- Clover hay, small potatoes, cabbage, beets, any of 

 the root crops. If you don't have that, yon can buy alfalfa meal. 



Mr. Brennan : I would ask if you would cook the potatoes or 

 use them raw ? 



Mrs. AsiiBV: It is not necessary to cook them at all. You can 

 take a board and drive some nails into it and stick them on the 

 nails. 



A Member: What is your experience with condimental foods? 



Mrs. Asiibv: I don't like them. I wouldn't feed hens condi- 

 mental foods. 



A Member : How about sulphur and Venetian red ? 



Mrs. Ashby : Venetian red is all right. Sulphur is fairly good 

 if you don't feed it in wet weather. 



A Member : Which is the best variety ? 



Mrs. Ashby : That depends upon the man. Every man has his 

 own choice, just like every man likes his own wife the best. 



A Member : How about the scours ? 



Mrs. Ashby : I think it is because they are not kept warm 

 enough ; sometimes because they are not hatched right. You take 

 an egg which has not a strong life germ, and the chickens are not 

 strong. 



A Member: Is there any external application of fluid or pow- 

 der that you can apply to your chickens or hens that will make 

 them immune from mites? 



]\Lrs. Ashby : Only so long as the powder remains strong 

 enough. 



A jMember: Do you have any trouble with young chickens 

 sprawling when they first hatch? 



]\Irs. Ashby: I think under those circumstances the germs are 

 not strong enough. If you have an incubator in which the tem- 

 perature varies from 95 to 108, the chicken is weakened before 

 it is hatched. 



A Member: What is the reason for so many cripples from an 

 incubator, when the same eggs are hatched by the hens with no 

 cripples at all? 



