114 POULTRY 
yet he does not believe that salts will take 
the place of green feed for all purposes. In 
most of the green feeds which are used there 
are vitamines present, and naturally salts will 
not take the place of these vitamines. 
Sulphur. Sulphur should be fed to laying 
pullets throughout the winter as regularly as 
once in four to six weeks. It is fed at the 
rate of one pound of sulphur to each twenty 
pounds of mash. This mixture of mash and 
sulphur is kept before the hens five or six 
days. The dose is repeated, as above men- 
tioned, in four to six weeks. It merely aids 
the birds to keep in good physical condition. 
Care of Droppings. The dropping boards 
in every henhouse should be cleaned off 
daily, summer and winter, but especially in 
the summer. It is good practice to scatter 
over the dropping boards, several times a 
week, a light coating of acid phosphate. 
This acid phosphate will preserve the nitro- 
gen which is present in the droppings, and the 
combination makes a more nearly complete 
fertilizer. Also, the acid phosphate has a 
tendency to reduce the possible number of 
mites and keeps the henhouse itself con- 
