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QBQless to the fowls when in a frozen coudirion. The feed, howeTer, eveii 

 when of the best quality, may not g^ve satisfaction. In that case, when no 

 eggs are being derived, change it entirely for three or four dajrs. Give 

 something entirely different in the morning from that previously given, even 

 if inferior, but still give whole grains at night in cold weather, for then the 

 fowls go on the roost early in the evening, and have to remain in the coops 

 iintU dayUght, which is nearly thirteen hours, and so long a period demands 

 the soUd food in order to keep them warm daring 4he long cold nights. 

 Whole com and wheat is best for them then, but in the morning any kind of 

 mixed soft food makes a good meal for a change. The changes can be made 

 by using good clover hay, steeped in warm water, after 1x;ing chopped fine, 

 slightly sprinkled with meal, and fed wai-ai, which will be verj- acceptable. 

 A lew onions chopped fine will also be highly relished. Parched ground 

 oats or parched cracked com is a splendid change of food for a few da\'s 

 from the ordinary routine of every day. It stimulates them if fed warm, and 

 is a good corrective of bowel complaints, especially if some of the grains 

 are parched till burned. The matter of feeding is to give variety, and if the 

 food is of good quaUty also, a good supply of eggs may be expected at all 

 times, but with good quarters and plenty of water the prospects will be 

 better. 



Sacv««sfal Poultry- Raising. — Mr. Charles Lyman, a successful nuser 

 of poultry, writes as follows: In raising poultry or stock of any kind, it 

 Bhould be the aim of every one to keep it healthy and improve it. Yoa can 

 do it very easily by adopting some systematic rules. These may be summed 

 up in brief, as follows: 



1. Construct your house, good and warm, so as to avoid damp floors, and 

 afford a flood of sunlight. Sunshine is better than medicine. 



2. Provide a dusting and scratching place where you can bury wheat and 

 com and thus induce the fowls to take the needful exercise. 



3. Provide yourself with some good, healthy chickens, none to be over 

 three or four years old, giving one cock to every twelve hens. 



4. Give plenty of fresh air at all times, especially in summer. 



5. Give plenty of fresh water daily, and never allow the fowls to go 

 thirsty. 



6. Feed them systematically two or three times a day; scatter the food so 

 (W can't eat too fast, or without proper exercise. Do not feed more than 



iuey will eat up clean, or they will get tired of that kind of feed. 



7. Give them a variety of both dry and cooked feed; a mixture of cooked 

 meat and vegetables is an excellent thing for their morning meal. 



8. Give soft feed in the morning, and the whole grain at night, except a 

 Uttie wheat or cracked com placed in the scratching places to give them 

 exercise during the day. 



9. Above all things keep the hen house clean and well ventilated. 



10. Do not crowd too many in one house. If you do, look out for disease. 



11. Use carbolic powder occasionally in the dusting bins to destroy lice. 



12. Wash your roosts and bottom of laying nests, and whitewash once a 

 week in summer, and once a month in winter. 



13. Let the old and young have as large a range as possible— -the larger 

 ihe better. 



14. Don't breed too many kinds of fowls at the sam* time, tmless yoa 

 •re going into the business. Three or four will give you your hands 



