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are strewn about the flour of every well-ordered hennery. The 

 exercise necessary to procure this meal is highly conducive to 

 the health of the fowls. 



At night feed whole corn. In warm weather, little or no corn 

 and more oats or other light food should be fed. A piece of 

 land should be set apart whose produce is to be strictly devoted 

 to the use of the poultry. This should be sown to winter rye in 

 the autumn to get the earliest green food in the spring. Then 

 clover seed may be sown on the grain or on a separate plat 

 and this with the refuse vegetables which are always about the 

 farm, will furnish a continual supply of green food for all kinds 

 of poultry. 



As a stimulus to laying fowls nothing is better than raw meat. 



Now a few practical suggestions on the extermination of by 

 far the greatest bane of poultry — lice. In the first place the 

 floor of the hen coop should consist of five or six inches of fine- 

 ly pulverized dust which being constantly stirred by the fowls 

 in flying about will be held in suspension in the air, and will act 

 as a valuable aid in keeping these pests in check. Of course 

 the dust bath must not be forgotten. It must be of sufficient 

 size and must be frequently renovated. A good receipt is to 

 add a small quantity of hard wood ashes to a bushel of perfect- 

 ly dry muck, finely sifted coal ashes, or fine road dust. 



Another efficacious remedy is half a bushel of lime, a dozen 

 pounds of sulphur and a little carbolic acid, the whole to be 

 thoroughly mixed together. If this be scattered over five hun- 

 dred square feet of floor surface, the building being kept tightly 

 closed for two hours, the lice will decidedly lose ground- If 

 any birds are effected with roup or gapes, let them inhale the 

 atmosphere for fifteen or twenty minutes. It will benefit them 

 greatly. 



Every week the perches should receive a liberal dressing of 

 kerosene oil, care being taken that all cracks and nail holes are 

 given special attention. This operation will be greatly facili- 

 tated and rendered more efficient, if the roosts are thoroughly 



