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chicks when they are hatched. Simply greasing the heads of very young 

 chickens will prevent lice from getting upon them. The old nest should 

 always be taken out and burned, and new straw used for each setting. The 

 nest-box should also be always re-whitewashed at each setting. 



IV. It is also claimed that hog's hair, used in place of straw for the nest, 

 is newr infested with lice. A writer says: "Hen lice won't stay in hog 

 hair." Some writers claim that nine out of every ten hens that die, die from 

 the effects of lice. Then "for heaven's sake," as we often hear said, keep 

 your hens free from lice, else, as we have suggested, do not keep poultry. 

 Whenever you see a hen drooping around, refusing to eat, and the comb look- 

 ing blue or dark at the points or end, pick her up and look for lice, which, if 

 found, "go for them" at once, as I have directed; clean the house, renew the 

 dust bath, and put all things again in " tip top " order. And remember I 



Water, Clean and Pure— Its Importance Daily for PoTiltry.— A 

 writer in the Fancier'a Journal believes that cholera will seldom trouble 

 poultry if they have a daily supply of pure water, and " that the omission to 

 furnish it is one of the worst forms of cruelty to animals." Another writer 

 says: " Poultry should be as regularly watered as horses, cattle or any of the 

 domestic animals." These statements from those in the business should be 

 taken as the "word for the wise," which "is sufficient." The tonic given 

 below can be occasionally used by putting into their drinking water, as there 

 directed. It is believed to be more needed in winter than summer, unless 

 disease is prevalent among them in the neighborhood. A few words now as 

 to food for poultry, necessity for variety, etc 



I. Food— Several Kinds Necessary for Poultry to do WelL— 

 It has been thft custom to feed poultry almost wholly upon corn, summer and 

 winter. But, as in other things, great rmprorement has been made, and it has 

 been found as necessary to give a variety of food to fowls as it is to persons or 

 other domestic animals if you want them to do their best. Corn, buckwheat, 

 wheat, oats, cooked vegetables of all kinds, meats, cooked and raw, fruit, 

 refuse from the table, raw cabbage in winter, as a substitute for the tender 

 grasses they obtain in summer; and some think it important to cut fine and give 

 them rowen or second growth hay, or dried grass, more correctly speaking ia 

 the winter; but the cabbage or other vegetables cooked, as aboved named, may 

 take its place very satisfactorily; but one or the other, or both, at different 

 times for variety's sake, would be better, and sour milk is also claimed to be 

 *' one of the best feeds for poultry, especially for young chickens, that can be 

 given them," says the iVetc York Herald, "as they thrive wonderfully upon a 

 diet of sour milk, and it may be given them in place of water to great advant* 

 age." 



IL Com at night in winter time is especially valuable.from the increased 

 beat or warmth it gives them during the cold months; while the other grains 

 are better in summer for general feeding, sometimes mixed, at other times a 

 feed of one, then the other. 



