NATURAL LAWS. <<> 



little dark, that is, don't let in the sunlight in the houses all 

 day long. A dark house is cool in summer. 



Spring and Summer Care. 



In early spring give them free range and don't house 200 t 

 to 1,000 hens in one bunch. Keep colony houses all over the 

 farm, 100 to 200 yards apart, the latter is better, then they 

 will not run over the same range, nor will they all go in one 

 l\ouse. The house shown in blue print is twenty-four foot 

 long including scratching shed. This will house fifty to 

 seventy-five hens easily if 011 free range, and they will do- 

 better than 300 hens yarded up in pens. Try it. Outside of 

 house keep a dust box covered with boards so that the rain, 

 cannot wet the dust. The box should be 4x4 feet and 8 in- 

 ches deep. Common clay dust is the best with a little air 

 slacken lime in it. In very hot weather you must see that 

 the hens have shade. 



Spray kerosene oil all over the house, roosts and sides r 

 to kill the lice. You will find them under roosts, poles and 

 in the cracks. Every two weeks spray gasoline over the 

 fowls. Gasoline is the best, surest, safest and cheapest lice 

 killer to use. It never hurts them in any way, but don't 

 have a lamp or lantern near the house when spraying. 



Thousands of fowls are killed by lice, especially in the- 

 fall, when the hens are moulting. They are weak then and 

 you will always find lice on them, under the tail feathers 

 and all over them. The body lice, those long, large yellow 

 ones, will kill a hen in short order when they are moulting.. 

 Sometimes a cupfull of lice are on one hen. Now just imag- 

 ine one hen louse on your head. The lice prevent the hens- 

 from moulting, laying, etc. So keep off the lice. 



A rooster very seldom takes a dust bath, so spray him 

 often with gasoline, as the rooster is the most important of 

 the whole flock, especially during the breeding season. 



Keep three cocks or cockerels among fifty to seventy-five 

 hens; they will not fight when on range, and each rooster 



