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whitewash in all crevices, which cannot bo done with a brush, 

 although it is advisable that when after spraying your house 

 to run across it with a brush smoothing it up, so it will make 

 it look clean and not striped.' As in spraying, the white- 

 wash will run, and in this way will get in all crevices and 

 kill all mites in. the house. Another word about mites. Al- 

 ways paint your roosts with coal oil, or with some regular 

 lice killer about ©very three months. Use a little lice powder 

 in the nest, or use the carbolized nest eggs. 



Over your floor, also, use some disinfectant. The disin- 

 fectant such as you would need would be a bucket of water 

 with about 15 to 20 drops of crude carbolic acid, keeping 

 the mites out of your house at all times, using ' ' The Preven- 

 tative than the Cure." 



If you have one of the Eotary Lice Machines upon your 

 place and there are new fowls coming into your place, run 

 them through this machine, thoroughly dusting them with the 

 lice powder in this method, thus killing the lice before turn- 

 ing them loose upon your place. 



All this may seem considerable trouble, yet it is not a 

 drop in the bucket as to when your chickens become thor- 

 oughly infested with mites, and you must destroy them in 

 order to protect your fowls. 



How to Prepare Blood Meal to Feed Your Poultry, 



If you have a slaugther house or any place you can get 

 blood directly from, you can prepare it in the following man- 

 ner, which gives you all the ingredients and which will keep 

 without spoiling, and by far superior to such blood that, you 

 purchase that has been baked in an oven. 



If you have a large kettle, or a food cooker, fill the tank 

 with water, getting it boiling hot. Take a flour sack, tak- 

 - ing a milk can, a bucket, ,or .anything you can carry' the 

 blood in. j^rop the sack in the water, leaving it open and 

 pouring the blood in it. Then tie it up, and by boiling it 

 several hours, it will become crumbly. Blood prepared in 

 this manner contains all the albumen that is necessary for 

 iigh class egg food for your poultry. 



In shipping poultry, it is advisable to use the "knock- 

 down" coop, so that it will not be broken up in returning. 

 The above illustration shows the "knock-down" coop and we 

 herewith show another illustration of a wire shipping coop 

 set up in ' ' knock-down ' ' shape, showing the advantage of 

 using such coops. 



Clover Cutters. 



This is a good little machine to have upon the place, as 

 any farmer generally has a little clover upon the place, and 

 by using a clover cutter cutting "the clover up about one- 

 half inch, it gives the poultry good fresh . green food at 



all seasons of the year. Another green food for poultry, 

 is putting away cabbage with the ropts, burying them, or 

 banging them in the cellar, as you need them in winter. Hang 

 them up in the poultry house by the roots with the heads 

 downward, so that your poultry may exercise a littk- by 

 jumping up; leave it just above the ground so that they mvpt 

 jump to pick it. It will be surprising how soon a pen of 

 eight hens and one cockerel will devour a head of cabbage. 



Small potatoes are an excellent food for your fowIs,it 

 is very fattening. A great many people dispose of the small 

 potatoes feeding them to the hogs, etc., where, if they had 

 a good cooker, after washing these potatoes, boil them, then 

 mash them up, using a little bran, or middlings in stiffening 

 it up, and in feeding it to your chickens, ospe^iHll.v du.-ks, 

 you will find it exceedingly fattening fir them and .1 very 

 cheap food. 



We mention these above facts, as th^y are simply every- 

 day facts that can be had and aej )inp'i^.'i 'd by every pcul- 

 tryman, or farmer, without any great cost whatever, an.I 

 which are very essential, when it eomes to tii3 profitable 

 raising of poultry.' 



OAERYING CASE, BETTER KNOWN AS PIT GAME 

 OARBYING CASE. 



A case of which 'the sides are made of cloth, arranged 

 so that a bird can stand erect; tail feathers will not be 

 crumpled and bird not injured. Exceptionally good for car- 

 rying birds from one place to another, without endangering 

 the feathers, when arranging them, for exhibition purposes. 

 A broken feather in a wing of a bird cuts a point in half 

 which .goes a long ways in making your birds score too low 

 to win a prize; the same with the sickle feathers. This 

 case prevents this. It gives them sufficient air, they are 

 well ventilated. No one knows what you are carrying. 

 They are used principally by faneie~*s of pit games,- carry- 

 ing birds to and from the pits. 



