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one position, so it may be as easily found during a storm 
ason a bright day. Plenty of food, such as the fowlscan 
eat, without seeing it, should always be kept in the box. 
A vessel of milk-warm water should be set in the box 
each day, but removed before any ice is formed therein. 
A wire screen, or one made of slats, may be placed un- 
der the perch, to keep the fowls from walking in the 
droppings, as it is very essential that they keep their feet 
dry. When the weather is pleasant, let the chickens 
out into the fresh air awhile each day, but keep them 
out of the snow. Wheat and screenings may well be 
kept, say an inch deep, all the time at the bottom of 
the feed-box, whatever other kind of feed may be given 
extra. 
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SELECTING, SELLING, ETC. 
Before a fowl is sold, a lot of the best pullets should 
be picked out, which, with the pullets kept the pre- 
vious winter, will make up the regular flock. The two- 
year-old hens should be sold in the spring, as soon as 
eggs become cheap; they sell better at that time than at 
any other. A hen has seen her best laying days when 
she has completed her second year. If eggs are the chief 
object in view, the cockerels and surplus puilets should 
be sold as early as possible. The pullets kept for winter 
layers should be well fed and brought to maturity as 
rapidly as possible, and they will begin laying in October; 
and if they are cared for as herein advised, will lay 
steadily all winter. 
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EGGS IN WINTER. 
Winter is the very time when eggs are worth the 
most, when hens want to lay as much or more than they 
