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DRINKING WATER. 



Pure drinking water is as necessary to the health and com- 

 fort of fowls as it is to the health and comfort of human beings, 

 and should be supplied in abundance. The water dishes should 

 be scalded out from time to time, and if a few drops of carbolic 

 acid are added to the water with which they are scalded so 

 much the better. Have your water dish as simple as possible. 

 There is nothing better than a two-quart treasure, made of 

 galvanized iron, set on a little shelf by the door of the hen 

 house and six inches from the floor. 



SANITATION IN SUMMER. 



It has been my observation that hens that are kept shut up 

 in houses and yards suffer more from lack of sanitation in sum- 

 mer than in winter. There are a hundred directions printed tor 

 making the house warm to one for making it cool. And yet 

 anyone who has watched a hen on a hot day in mid-summer, 

 with mouth wide open and wings outspread, must realize that 

 the poor creature is far from comfortable. Houses built on the 

 colony-community plan, such as I have already described, are 

 ideal houses for summer as well as for winter, as there is a win- 

 dow in the front and on the end. As soon as warm weather 

 comes I take out both windows, letting the air circulate freely 

 through the house. Poultry wire tacked on the outside of the 

 window frame keeps the biddies in and the. "varmints" out. 



