A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



pings adhere to the feathers, and cause the 

 vent to be pasted up, remove the obstruction 

 by bathing with warm water. Keep the 

 patient warm and mix a little poppy seed 

 with its food. A few days' care will effect a 

 cure, unless the case is hopeless. 



Natural incubation must not be neglected, 

 for no matter how many modern inventions 

 for converting eggs into chickens the "Home" 

 may boast, Biddy takes precedence for rearing 

 future stock, and for ; hatching small numbers 

 of ducks, geese, or turkey eggs. 



Do not think that Biddy must be allowed 

 to remain in the nest she claims in the chicken- 

 house, for such an arrangement always breeds 

 trouble; every hen will desire to lay in that 

 particular nest, even if there are twenty others 

 vacant. Then, if Mrs. Biddy is of a pugilistic 

 disposition, there are fights and broken eggs. 

 If she be of the angelic type, and allow in- 

 truders to crowd into her nest, she gathers the 

 eggs to her motherly breast, and the warmth 

 soon renders them unfit for table use. 



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