280 USEFUL HINTS 



A shelter can easily be rigged from old burlap or a few 

 armfuls of fir boughs, if there is no natural shade. 



It often is your fault that hens get to eating eggs ; but 

 after they do contract the habit, lay the axe at the root 

 of the tree — in other words, stop the business, short off. 

 Then change your bill of fare. Something is lacking in 

 the feed. 



Vaccine is effective in guarding against hog cholera. 

 The common vaccine is blood serum from the body of an 

 immune hog. The double vaccine treatment is the use of 

 virulent blood serum from the body of a hog in the last 

 stages of cholera. 



It may be possible to have poultry live without any 

 animal matter, but for profit and thrift it is necessary 

 that they receive a certain per cent of meat in the daily 

 bill of fare, especially when they are confined to runs, or 

 to houses in winter. 



One reason why women usually succeed with poul- 

 try is because they are considerate of the wants of the 

 fowls. Women have more patience naturally than 

 men, and it requires a great deal of patience to make 

 a success of poultry raising. 



If farmers and others engaged in the production of 

 eggs would market their male birds as soon as the hatch- 

 ing season is over, a large saving would be made, as prac- 

 tically every infertile egg would grade a\irst or second 

 if clean and promptly marketed. 



The fact that dairymen have devoted more attention 

 to other phases of their dairying than to the breeding and 

 development of the cow is one of the reasons why so many 



