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sacking or pieces of old carpet. It is wise not 

 to give more than 10 chickens to one hen. It 

 lessens the danger of the hen trampling them 

 to death or of the weakly chickens being crowd- 

 ed out and chilled during the night. Renew 

 the material on the floors of the coops at least 

 weekly, and mix with it after the first week a 

 little flower of sulphur. After the first day 

 the hen may be liberated about 5 o'clock in 

 the evening, and she will at once seek a place 

 to dust herself, and after an hour's exercise 

 will return to the coop for the night. 



FEEDING 



The first food given is stale bread moistened 

 with milk and finely chopped onion added. 

 The onion prevents bowel disease. Rolled 

 oats may be given not more than twice daily. 

 After the second day Puritan chick meal may 

 be used as the chief diet, and the first men- 

 tioned food given occasionally. The Puritan 

 meal seems to be a well-balanced food, and the 

 chicks like it. It is expensive, but the chickens 

 do so well that it is the best and cheapest in 

 the end. After the first week small grains 

 should be fed for the last meal. After four or 

 five weeks the expensive special foods may 

 gradually be discarded for the ordinary diet, 

 unless the chickens are being forced for the 

 fall shows, when it will be better to continue 

 the food that produces the fastest develop- 

 ment. Size is necessary to win. Skim milk 

 may be used to advantage as drink, and also to 

 moisten the meal fed both to the chickens and 

 the other fowl. 



FRUIT GROWING AND POULTRY 



If it can possibly be arranged, the poultry 

 should have the run of the apple and other 

 orchards. The fowl catch the injurious in- 

 sects. They eat all worm-eaten fruit, thereby 

 destroying maggots that would eventually 

 have developed into parent insects. Their 

 constant scratching is a good form of cultiva- 

 tion, and the droppings are valuable fertil- 

 izers. When the main crop of fruit is about 

 ripe the fowl must be shut off from the orchard. 

 Fowl may be enclosed in the raspberry patch 

 with similar benefits to both. Raspberries be- 

 gin to ripen about July 1, and finish ripenmg 

 about Aug. 15. Between those dates the fowl 

 will have to be removed for they relish ripe 

 raspberries. In the runs on a town lot black 

 currants may be grown successfully. Fowl 

 will not eat black currants until the currants 

 are over-ripe. This gives an opportunity for 

 the crop to be harvested before being eaten, 

 which saves the trouble of removing the hens 

 from the runs. 



Items of Interest 



At a meeting of the Burlington Horticul- 

 tural Association on Mar. 31, the following res- 

 olution was drafted and forwarded to the auth- 

 orities: "That this Association respectfully 

 urges the Dominion government to use every 

 effort to make such arrangements with the 

 government of Germany as will admit of Cana- 

 dian fruit, both green and dried, entering the 

 German market on as favorable terms as the 

 fruit of the United States, and that a copy of 

 this resolution be forwarded to Hon. Sydney 

 Fisher, J. E. Armstrong, M.P., and D. Hender- 

 son, M.P." Amalgamation with the Southern 

 Ontario Fruit Growers' Association was con- 

 sidered, and a resolution was passed to join 

 that association on the basis of one representa- 

 tive. D. Johnson, of Forest, and A. Gifford, 

 of Meaford, gave interesting and instructive 

 addresses. 



Extensive work is being planned by the 

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 Society for this season. A civic improvement 

 committee comprising H. K. Griffith, J. A. 

 Livingston, John Brennan and Dr. Smith, ap- 

 pointed some time ago, have been doing ener- 

 getic work in an attempt to get the citizens 

 and the managers of the railway companies to 

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