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so that the bird cannot straighten it out, and this answers, so that it 

 is not necessary to clip the feathers. 



FAKING SHOULD WE FAKE? 



AVe could devote some space and tell you how to splice feathers, 

 remove stubs, black feathers, change white in ear lobes to red and 

 red to white, remove side sprigs, and various other things to deceive 

 the judge in the show room and to deceive your customer to whom 

 you might sell a disqualified specimen at a good price. But this book 

 is not compiled to encourage dishonesty, but to help all honest poultry- 

 men to succeed without having to resort to such trickery and prac- 

 tices. Discourage this sort of business wherever you may see it, and 

 conduct your business upon a high plane and according to the golden 

 rule, and when you can't succeed by that method, then abandon the 

 chicken business. 



GOVERNMENT WHITEWASH. 



A recipe for whitewash in the poultry house that won't rub off, is 

 as follows: One peck of lime slacked in boiling water and kept 

 just covered by the w r ater while slacking. Strain through coarse 

 cloth. Add two quarts of fine salt dissolved in warm water, one pound 

 of rice meal or ground rice boiled in water to a thin paste, one-quarter 

 pound of whiting, and half a pound of glue dissolved in warm water. 

 Mix all thoroughly and let stand covered for two or three days; stir 

 occasionally. Heat the mixture before using. Sometimes a quantity 

 of crude carbolic acid is added to this wash, but this changes the color 

 somewhat, and it is therefore best, we think, to whitewash your house 

 as above and then use crude carbolic acid with which to paint the 

 roost poles and nest boxes. 



THE BEST METHOD OF PRESERVING EGGS FOR FAMILY USE. 



After your hatching season is over, take the male birds away from 

 the hens. Eggs are beginning to become plentiful and cheap during 

 these months. If you wish to preserve some for your own use, put 

 them up in this manner: Get half barrel, ten gallon kegs or stone 

 jars never use metal and place the eggs in these vessels with the 

 little ends dow r n. After you have boiled the water, mix ten or fifteen 

 gallons of water with one gallon of water glass or sodium silicate, mix 

 the solution thoroughly, and then pour it over the eggs until they are 

 well covered. You can get the water glass at most any drug store or 

 they can order it for you. This method of preserving eggs is recom- 

 mended by the government and by all experiment stations as the only 

 satisfactory way for the farmer or poultry raiser to preserve eggs 

 for his own use. The farmer should sell all the surplus eggs to his 

 local poultry dealer, gathering them while they are fresh and market- 

 ing them each week, and the few that he desires to keep for his own 

 use should be stored in the manner recommended. Eggs will keep in 

 this manner for twelve months or longer, but before being boiled, it 

 is advisable to take a pin and punch a small hole in the large end of 

 the egg to prevent the shell from cracking. 



