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sense has taught me that nature needs assistance in the form 

 of a tonic that will keep the whole system in perfect working 

 order. I find when this tonic is used, that nature will do its 

 work from six to eight weeks quicker in maturing a growing 

 chicken from the shell to the show room. 



I will now give you one of the best secrets I have. You will 

 find this one of the best tonics and feather growers known. It 

 is made in the following manner: 



Take five pounds of French Poultry Mustard and three 

 pounds of sulphur. Mix thoroughly together by hand. Now 

 take one tablespoonful of sulphate of iron, and dissolve it in a 

 little water. When dissolved add it to one gallon of molasses 

 and mix well together. Then pour the gallon of molasses over 

 the sulphur and mustard, and mix all thoroughly with your 

 hands to a thick paste. When this is done put into an earthen 

 jar that has a cover. Keep the cover on at all times to keep the 

 dust out. The above amount will last a breeder a long time as 

 it will not spoil. 



The tonic should be fed in a mash to growing chickens after 

 they are three months old. It does not make any difference 

 what you use to wet your mash, whether it is water and liver, 

 or clear water or milk. Dissolve one tablespoonful of the 

 tonic in three quarts of the liquid you use to wet your mash. 

 This should be fed in their mash for three days and then skip 

 three days, until you have fed it nine days in each month. Start 

 to feed it the first of each month, and after you have fed it in 

 their mash nine days, as described above, for the rest of each 

 month use in their wet mash one heaping tablespoonful of 

 flax seed (not the meal), to every twelve growing chickens. 

 There is nothing known that will beat this secret for growing 

 length of feather, and putting on the high sheen which is 

 wanted so much in the show room. Use the same method for 

 moulting out your old stock. They will put on their new 



