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Incubation during the summer months. 



Using the winter laying shed during the summer. 



Keeping the male bird with hens when breeding is over. 



Having more than one gobbler to twelve turkey hens. 



Fertile eggs for storage — infertile keep better. 



Keeping hens over three years. 



Inbreeding — it promotes disease. 



An excess of the three W's — wind, wheat, and water. 



Overcrowding the crate for market. 



Mixing brown and white eggs — grade them to size and colour. 



Changing your agent too often — get his confidence and he, yours. 



Missing the Cup markets, &c. 



Access to orchard during spraying operations. 



Sending old with young birds to market — grade :hem. 



Heavy combed hens when selecting layers. 



Exciting laying hens — often causes death. 



Feeding cock with hens. 



Running pullets from one yard m another — often causes ovary troubles 



Building fowl-houses' adjoining vour neighbour's fences. 



Too many fowls in a small yard. 



Glass as grit — earthenware is best. 



Egg-eating hens. 



Leaving infertile eggs in incubator after 7th day — use for chick feed. 



The hen laying double-yolk eggs. 



Disposing of eggs in the earlv spring if vou want winter layers yourself. 



Keeping cockerels beyond five months. 



Feeding too late in the mornings. 



Cold pollard. 



Exposure of drinking vessel to sun's rays — induces bowel troubles. 



Leaving diseased carcases ab<3ut — burn them. 



Poultry in the pig-sty. 



Tainted soils — plough and use lime, or grow a root-crop first to cleanse. 



Star\'ing fowls during moulting season. 



An excess of meat — it is as bad as none at all ; 1 oz. dailv is sufficient. 



High poultry buildings — they are difficult to disinfect and cost too much. 



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