10.060 «ps THE HOME POULTENM BOGE 
ough renovation. It may be whitewashed, sprayed 
or washed with kerosene or treated to a coat of 
prepared lice paint. Some of the latter are very 
efficacious, one application sufficing for several 
months. 
Remove the broody hens to the breaking-up coop 
the first night they are found on the nest, if they 
are not to be set. The longer they sit, the more 
difficult it becomes to make them forget that they 
want to sit. 
It is a simple matter to start in the poultry 
business this month by buying a few broody 
old hens and several sittings of eggs from good 
stock. 
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Day-old chicks purchased the first of this month 
will begin laying early in the Fall, if they belong 
to the smaller breeds. This is a good way for the 
amateur to begin. The chicks may be put under a 
broody hen at night, raised in an ordinary heated 
brooder or grown in a fireless brooder. The latter 
will give satisfaction now that the weather is fairly 
warm. 
When the breeding season is over, the male birds 
