CHAPTER XV. 



Salad and Dressing. 



Never get too old to learn. 



About as many failures in the poultry business come from 

 keeping- 100 fowls where there is room for only 25, as from 

 any other source. 



Sitting hens should not be. allowed to dust in coal ashes, 

 as the fine particles clog the pores in the egg shells. Dry 

 earth is the best stuff for a sitting hen to dust in. 



Kainit may be substituted for plaster to mix the manure 

 in case a manure particularly rich in potash is wanted, and 

 acid phosphate may be substituted for a rich phosphatic 

 manure. 



It is a good plan for a poultryman to keep a few standard 

 remedies on hand all the time. Then if disease conies down 

 4 upon him like the wolf on the fold he is in a measure pre- 

 pared to meet it. 



Lice multiply upon a sick fowl, because its vitality is so 

 depleted that it cannot keep itself clean. Accordingly, when 

 you remove a sick fowl to the hospital for treatment give it a 

 good dusting with insect powder before you administer the 

 medicine. 



Introduce new blood from time to time, but do not intro- 

 duce it indiscriminately. Find a man who is working along 

 the same lines with yourself, and get your males from him. 

 Breed in two years, and the third year send away to the same 

 man for more males. 



Green ground bone is a grand food for fowls, but it must 

 be fresh and not fed in too great quantity. A correspondent 

 writes that she lost 77 out of a flock of 94 beautiful chicks in 

 three weeks by feeding ground bone that she bought of a 

 local dealer. Probably the bone was tainted, or she fed too 

 much. 



Rats Rats are naturally granivorous, and prefer corn to 

 .anything else. The poultryman should take advantage of 

 this fact. Let him scatter a handful of whole corn about 

 each rat hole, and the rat will not molest the chicks. It may 

 seem rather expensive to feed rats corn, but it is not so 

 expensive as it is to feed them on chicken meat. The poul- 



