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NATURE AND ITS 



will go on range with his little flock and thereby he will have 

 different hens every day, and then you will get fertile eggs. 



During- the moulting- season feed the hens cabbage, sun- 

 flowers, milk and fresh-cracked bone. This will make them 

 anoult early and make the feathers grow. If you have a 

 cockerel you want to show as a cock in the shows, pull his 

 tail feathers out in September. This will make his tail 

 feathers grow out and be matured when shown in the winter. 

 Thus you will score two points pn tail; this goes a great way 

 toward winning a prize. 



Be sure that your hens are free from lice . If you see i 

 lien with a look on her as if she was starving, she is lousef. 

 If the cock has glassy eyes and rough looking plumage, aid 

 generally drags his tail, the lice are eating him up and drink- 

 ing every drop of blood in the bird. Take care of them /in 

 time and don't wait until it is too late. A stitch in time 

 .saves nine. 



Cholera comes in the fall. The cause of cholera is that 

 -the hens are too fat. Corn will do it quicker than any other 

 "thing, so don't feed corn to hens in summer. Once a week is 

 plenty. Oats, wheat, millet and free range is good for them. 

 Always keep lime in the water on hot days. Grit, sharp 

 tones pounded up; buy mica crystal grit, or common crushed 

 stone No. 1; such as is used on the streets is good. 



Hens on a range in the fall wont need much grain or 



food; they will find lots of bugs and grasshoppers. One feed 



a day of oats and wheat screenings is plenty for hens on a 



;f ree range. Always keep lots of fresh water in a cool place 



-and clean out the pail every day. 



Nothing is better than cabbage for hens in the fall. I 

 tthrow one head of cabbage to thirty hens every other day, 

 ^when they are -moulting, and all the skimmilk they will 

 -drink. When on the roost at night in the hot summer 

 weather, keep one side of the house open, with a wire front 

 and if any dogs or two-legged animals are around lock the 

 door, and they will still have plenty of air, as the east side 

 is all open, except for the poultry wire. This will keep out 



