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Points on Care and Breeding of Pheasants, etc. 



A PRACTICAL POULTRY HOUSE WITH SCRATCHING SHED 



It is a good idea to place 2-inch mesh poultry wire in front of scratching shed, in order to 

 keep the hens under shelter during rough and stormy weather. For scratching feed use small 

 seeds such as canary and millet. Chickens appreciate these seeds as we do our dessert and 

 will work a long time for one kernel. 



A practical chicken roost. A poultry house should be white- 

 washed at least four times a year in order to keep 

 "Smarotzers" vermin out 



"Sure Egg Recipe" 



The Secret to Make Hens 



Lay all the Year Around, 



Especially in Winter 



Made of the following: 



Mix together 20 Ibs. of ground 

 Corn; 5 Ibs. Oats; 3 Ibs. of Bran; 

 5 Ibs. Beef Scraps; 2 Ibs. Cut 

 Clover; % Ib. Pratts' Poultry 

 Food; 2 Ibs. Oyster Shells; Y Ib. 

 Table Salt; use as much as is 

 wanted for one day and add 

 water until moist and crumbly. 

 Can be fed dry also. 



Oyster shells and cut clover 

 should be permanently kept in a 

 box before the hens. 



I have used this feed for a number of years, and I assure you I get more eggs in winter 

 than in summer, and this is no comic opera talk either. The past winter I averaged six eggs 

 from ten hens daily, using the above recipe exclusively. Try it and be convinced. You will 

 also find that eggs produced from this feed have an exceptionally delicious taste, and entirely 

 different from eggs produced from a hen that runs about a dirty barn yard. I consider cut 

 clover a most important feed for a hen's meal in winter to produce egg shells. A customer 

 writes* I used your sure egg recipe and by mistake it was placed before my setting hens, 

 and in three days' time two of them left their nest, quit setting and begun to lay again. This 

 reminds me of another big story I heard. It was recited by an negro through the Edison 

 phonograph from a piece called "My Uncle's Farm," he said there was a spring on his uncle's 

 farm that gave soup ; the other fellow had a still better yarn, he said there was a well on his 

 uncle's farm that was so deep if a man was to fall into it, it would take three days' before one 

 could hear the splash. 



