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drown the old hen in the rain barrel, as is too often the custom, or 

 place the hen in a pen with a vigorous male bird, and make her exer- 

 cise for her feed. Don't starve these hens, but feed them all they 

 will eat. Heavy feeding starts them back to laying at an early date. 

 Starving them delays egg production much longer. 



A good method of breaking hens from broodiness. 



Labor is one of the greatest factors in poultry culture, and when 

 you are building you a house and arranging your poultry farm you 

 should see that they are so arranged and located that a large number 

 of chicks can be taken care of with the least possible labor and in- 

 convenience. 



The grain room and the brooder house should be made abso- 

 lutely rat proof. 



It is easier to feed, water and take care of one hundred birds in 

 one pen than it is ten pens of ten birds each. 



A glass front placed in your poultry house makes it very hot in 

 day and very cold at night; therefore, we advocate the open air 

 houses. A reasonable amount of cold does not hurt a hen, neither 

 does a reasonable amount of heat, but a very great variation in tem- 

 perature does hurt a hen. 



Onions, garlic and the refuse from the hotels will cause the 

 eggs to have a bad flavor, and therefore we should be careful about 

 what sort of feed we give our laying hens. 



Don't allow your birds to be crowded in coops or in their roost- 

 ing rooms. If you will put three hens with about sixty chickens and 

 keep them in one bunch, they will usually do much better than one 

 or two hens with chicks. Two seldom do well together, but with 



