AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
is warm, and therefore the instructions and sugges- 
tions given above on warm-weather management 
will apply during the greater part of the molting 
period. An occasional feed of linseed meal will 
be found beneficial to molting birds, while animal 
food or meat in some form is essential for furnish- 
ing feather-forming materials. A few handfuls of 
sunflower seeds every day or two will help to loosen 
up the old feathers and cause the new ones to come 
in smooth and oily. This is the only feed or system 
that the author uses to hasten the molt, as I believe 
in letting Nature pursue her own course. 
The fall is the time to prepare for winter. There 
is much to do. Broken window lights, cracks or 
Fall knotholes in the walls or roof of the 
Management poultry house did not make so much 
difference in the summer time, but all these, to- 
gether with any similar defects, must now be reme- 
died at once. Colds and roup are the results of 
drafts and dampness during cool weather. The 
poultry house should always be thoroughly reno- 
vated and cleaned out just before cold weather sets 
in. Remove all the old litter, and also three or four 
inches of the top of an earth floor, and replace this 
with fresh, untainted material. This is very desir- 
able in keeping the house fresh and sanitary and 
prevents disease germs from lurking around from 
year to year. Burn all the old nesting material as 
well as the litter. Take the roosts and nests to the 
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