228 USEFUL HINTS 



Save your poultry manure for the garden patch. 

 Sprinkle it with land plaster (gypsum) or coal ashes. 

 This makes an excellent compound for a fertilizer. 

 This manure is very valuable, and will make a big 

 improvement in your garden soil. Try it for your- 

 self, and you will be surprised what it will do. 



An inactive, lazy cockerel or cock is not a safe 

 bird to use at the head of a pen from which you 

 expect to gather the eggs for hatching. Vitality 

 counts in him just as much as it does in the female; 

 in fact, more so, especially when only one male is 

 permitted to run with the hens. 



Eggs may be safely dipped into water during 

 incubation, providing, of course, the water is of 

 the same temperature as the eggs, about 103 de- 

 grees. Do not dip later than the eighteenth day. 

 Such treatment is only necessary in the absence of 

 sufficient moisture. 



Give the growing chicks plenty of exercise. The 

 run should be covered with short cut alfalfa, straw, 

 or clover, to the depth of two or three inches. Scat- 

 ter grain food in this litter, and make the youngsters 

 dig for it. The chicks will enjoy the sport and will 

 develop into strong, healthy fowls. In other words, 

 make them work for their food. 



