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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral EdlUon 



Fire Blight Destroys 

 Thousands of Trees 



FIRE BLIGHT OF THE APPLE 



IS SPREAD BY APHIS 



APHIS CHECKS GROWTH OF TREES 



APHIS CAUSES LEAVES TO CURL 



APHIS DEFORMS FRUIT 



DESTROY APHIS WITH 



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Clip off the heavy winter coat from your norses 



before the eprins work begins. They will look 



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I The Poultry Yard 



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Grit and oyster shell should be In a 

 hopper, to which the hens have access at 

 all times. The grit may te the commercial 

 product, or if you are situated so that you 

 can get a supply of coarse sand or fine 

 gravel In the fall, It will answer very well. 

 Oyster shell is a convenient form of supply- 

 ing the lime necessary, and the egg shellB 

 may be used for the same purpose, but 

 should be broken up fine before they are 

 fed so that the hen will not get Into the 

 habit of eating the eggs. 



Sixty-flve per cent, of the contents of the 

 egg is water. This means that the hen 

 must have plenty of drinking water. Open 

 pans or pails are the Ijest water vessels foi» 

 winter, because they can be emptied and 

 cleaned more readily than other vessels. 

 Where It is almost Impossible to have a 

 fairly constant supply of water before the 

 hens, see that there is a pan of fresh snow 

 put In. In fact, fresh snow Is sometimes 

 used exclusively, though where the condi- 

 tions are such that water can be supplied, 

 it is better, and if the chill Is taken off It. 

 it will remain longer without freezing. 



Mark the Laying Pullets. 



By this time a pullet should be laying 

 well. Those that are not .should be marked 

 or rather those that are laying should be 

 marked so that only such will be kept 

 another year. The pullet that does not lay 

 in January will not likely pay for her keep 

 and should be discarded in the spring 

 Those that are laying should be kept for 

 breeders another year. 



The best results cannot be obtained from 

 a flock in which hoth hens and pullets run 

 together. The pullets should he fed better 

 than the hens at this time of the year, be- 

 cause it Is from them that the fresh egg? 

 should be coming. If the flock Is of any 

 size, and a division could be made In the 

 house, so that the pullets will be kept by 

 themselves, it would be worth while to do !♦ 



Keep things clean. Though the winter 

 Is cold, don't think that there will bo no 

 mites. Watch out for them. Clean out thi» 

 house frequently. Put In a nice clean litter 

 occa.sionally, give the hens a comfortable, 

 though It may be a cold house, and If you 

 have a good strain of birds, fed judiciously, 

 you ought to have been getting eggs since 

 early In January. 



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H. PETERS 



88 Front St. Elast, Toronto 



References: The Cana- 

 dian Bank of Commerce 

 (Market Branch) and 

 Commercial Agencies 



