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invented by Dr. Merkley of Buffalo. This Is an Inexpensive attach- 

 ment which may be applied to any incubator, and which greatly 

 increases both the number and vitality of chicks hatched. 



EGG EATING. 



This is a vicious habit. An egg eating hen will demoralize a 

 whole flock, for the trick is easily learned. 



Various "cures" have been suggested. Paring down the offenders 

 beak; filling an egg shell with nauseous compound; leaving china eggs 

 about; any of these methods may prove effective. And they may not. 

 Prevention is better than cure. Provide nests that are so high in front 

 that eggs cannot roll out. Place a number of china eggs in the nest. 

 Use trap nests and have them quite dark. Furnish plenty of oyster 

 shells, beef scraps, bone and green food. Gather the eggs often, and 

 feed scratch grain in the litter at short intervals. Keep the hens 

 busy and they wont have time to learn bad habits. 



HOW TO GET MORE PULLETS. 



An excess of pullets is desirable, and for unknown ages men have 

 sought to find a way to obtain them. There have been "ways" without 

 number. The shape of the egg; the time of the moon; the sizes of the 

 fowls all were sure to work — until tried. 



After a careful series of tests it has been demonstrated to the 

 satisfaction of many people that mating a reliable cock that will be 

 two years old late in the following spring, to very large and active 

 females that are at least one year old, and by allowing from twenty- 

 five to forty of such females to one such male the offspring will be 

 pullets by a good majority. 



